Quotes about Virtue

Govern well thy appetite, lest sin surprise thee, and her black attendant, Death.

Men of most renowned virtue have sometimes by transgressing most truly kept the law.

Virtue could see to do what virtue would by her own radiant light, though sun and moon were in the flat sea sunk. And Wisdom's self oft seeks to sweet retired solitude, where, with her best nurse contemplation, she plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings.

Tis Chastity, my brother, Chastity: She that has that, is clad in complete steel.

So absolute she seems and in herself complete, so well to know her own, that what she wills to do or say, seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best.

Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is and saw Virtue in her shape how lovely: and pined his loss

Every good thing in the Christian life grows in the soil of humility. Without humility, every virtue and every grace withers. That's why Calvin said humility is first, second, and third in the Christian faith.

He has made me wary of chronological snobbery. That is, he showed me that newness is no virtue and oldness is no vice. Truth and beauty and goodness are not determined by when they exist. Nothing is inferior for being old, and nothing is valuable for being modern. This has freed me from the tyranny of novelty and opened for me the wisdom of the ages.

humility is beyond our reach. if it were a product of reaching, we would instinctively be proud of reaching it. it is a gift.

C. S. Lewis] showed me that newness is no virtue and oldness is no vice. Truth and beauty and goodness are not determined by when they exist. Nothing is inferior for being old, and nothing is valuable for being modern. This has freed me from the tyranny of novelty and opened for me the wisdom of the ages.

In the end, the only 'good name' that matters is not how men feel about us, but how God feels about us.

Humility is the soil in which everything good in the Christian life grows.