Quotes about Virtue
True humility--the basis of the Christian system--is the low but deep and firm foundation of all virtues.
- Edmund Burke
One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
- Edmund Burke
Power gradually extirpates for the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
- Edmund Burke
The distinguishing part of our Constitution is its liberty. To preserve that liberty inviolate seems the particular duty and proper trust of a member of the House of Commons. But the liberty, the only liberty, I mean is a liberty connected with order: that not only exists along with order and virtue, but which cannot exist at all without them. It inheres in good and steady government, as in its substance and vital principle.
- Edmund Burke
Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
- Edmund Burke
Muscular Christianity
- Anonymous
The wise and moral manShines like a fire on a hilltop,Making money like the bee,Who does not hurt the flower.
- Anonymous
Leave not a stain in thine honor.
- Anonymous
Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: But a woman who fears the Lord, She shall be praised. (Proverbs 31:30 Modern King James Version)
- Anonymous
A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches.
- Anonymous
A man's pride shall bring him low: but honor shall uphold the humble in spirit.
- Anonymous
From all blindness of heart, from pride, vainglory, and hypocrisy; from envy, hatred, and malice, and all uncharitableness,Good Lord, deliver us.
- Anonymous