Quotes about Virtue

A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things. Matthew 12:35.

Bad habits are more easily formed than good habits, and the bad habits are given up with more difficulty. The natural depravity of the heart accounts for this well-known fact—that it takes far less labor to demoralize the youth, to corrupt their ideas of moral and religious character, than to engraft upon their character the enduring, pure, and uncorrupted habits of righteousness and truth.

The highest evidence of nobility in a Christian is self-control.

it is good for a man to do right, and to leave happiness to take care of itself...

But because many endeavor to get knowledge rather than to live well, they are often deceived and reap little or no benefit from their labor.

Having received the Spirit of Christ to know good from evil, we should always choose the good.

Unhappy it is, though, to reflect that a brother's sword has been sheathed in a brother's breast and that the once-happy plains of America are either to be drenched with blood or inhabited by slaves. Sad alternative! But can a virtuous man hesitate in his choice?

Let your conversation be without malice or envy, for it is a sign of a tractable and commendable nature; and in all cases of passion admit reason to govern.

Speak not evil of the absent, for it is unjust.

To the distinguished character of patriot, it should be our highest glory to add the more distinguished character of Christian

Belief fails when it works not well indeed but is idle as a sleeping man... Each virtuous deed is strong when it is grounded upon the solidity of belief.

While the soul is in mortal sin, nothing can profit it; none of its good works merit an eternal reward, since they do not proceed from God as their first principle, and by Him alone is our virtue real virtue.