Quotes about Virtue

I am much more afraid of my good deeds that please me than of my bad deeds that repel me.

To me, a lady is not frilly, flouncy, flippant, frivolous and fluff-brained, but she is gentle, she is gracious, she is godly and she is giving. You and I have the gift of femininity... the more womanly we are, the more manly men will be and the more God is glorified. Be women, be only women, be real women in obedience to God.

This virtuous and very industrious woman needs physical strength and ability to do the work of her life, the work of love.

Proverbs 7:11-12—These verses describe, of all things, an adulteress. She is doing the opposite of the wise homemaker who tends to her house and housework. She is "out there," walking the streets, instead of being at home. "Her feet would not stay at home. At times she was outside, at times in the open square, lurking at every corner.

As a Christian, your godly life and your godly mothering sends its shimmering wake throughout all eternity.

'Tis only noble to be good.Kind hearts are more than coronets,And simple faith than Norman blood.

My strength is as the strength of ten, Because my heart is pure.

The best of men are just men at best.

According to the Stoics, all vice was resolvable into folly: according to the Christian principle, it is all the effect of weakness.

Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. People are just people, and all people have faults and shortcomings, but all of us are born with a basic goodness.

Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.

We live in a world that is filled with filth and sleaze, a world that reeks of evil. You cannot afford that filthy poison to touch you. Stay away from it. Avoid it.