Quotes about Virtue
self-interest is not the same as selfishness.
— John Piper
However tiresome to others, the most indefatigable orator is never tedious to himself. The sound of his own voice never loses its harmony to his own ear; and among the delusions, which self-love is ever assiduous in attempting to pass upon virtue, he fancies himself to be sounding the sweetest tones
— John Quincy Adams
Cleanliness is indeed next to godliness.
— John Wesley
Vice does not lose its character by becoming fashionable.
— John Wesley
True humility is a kind of self-annihilation; and this is the centre of all virtues.
— John Wesley
Good people avoid sin because they love goodness, Wicked people avoid sin because they fear punishment.
— John Wesley
Do not impute to money the faults of human nature.
— John Wesley
The true test of a man's character is what he does when no one is watching.
— John Wooden
The heart must be renewed by divine grace, or it will be in vain to seek for purity of life. He who attempts to build up a noble, virtuous character independent of the grace of Christ is building his house upon the shifting sand.
— Ellen White
Principle, right, honesty, should ever be cherished.
— Ellen White
The fruit of the tree of life in the Garden of Eden possessed supernatural virtue. To eat of it was to live forever. Its fruit was the antidote of death. Its leaves were for the sustaining of life and immortality. But through man's disobedience, death entered the world. Adam ate of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, the fruit of which he had been forbidden to touch. His transgression opened the floodgates of woe upon our race.
— Ellen White
If you are to be saints in heaven, you must first be saints upon the earth.
— Ellen White