Quotes about Virtue
The opposite of bad is not good. The opposite of bad is love.
— Henry Cloud
Man is born for uprightness. If a man lose his uprightness and yet live, his escape from death is mere good fortune.
— Confucius
Vice never leads to virtue. Hate never promotes love. Cowardice never gives courage. Doubt never inspires faith.
— Thomas Monson
Purity prepares the soul for love, and love confirms the soul in purity.
— John Henry Newman
Love is a beautiful image Imagined or seen within the heart, The friend of virtue and gentility.
— Michelangelo
Goodness is to do good to the deserving and love the good and hate the wicked, and not to be eager to inflict punishment or take vengeance, but to be gracious and kindly and forgiving.
— Aristotle
Love is the great conqueror of lust.
— CS Lewis
True virtue never looks so lovely as when it is most oppressed, and the divine excellence of real Christianity is never demonstrated as clearly as when it faces trials.
— Jonathan Edwards
There is no such thing as excess in our taking of this spiritual food. There is no such virtue as temperance in spiritual feasting.
— Jonathan Edwards
What we call a vice is actually an inability to recognize what has the greatest value.
— Jonathan Edwards
Resolved, never to suffer the least motions of anger to irrational beings.
— Jonathan Edwards
but his mouth was that of the just, which bringeth forth wisdom, and whose lips dispense knowledge.
— Jonathan Edwards