Quotes about Virtue
Human excellence means nothing Unless it works with the consent of God.
— Euripides
We were made for good works (cf. Phil. 1:11) to the glory and praise of our Maker, and to imitate God as far as might be.
— Gregory of Nazianzus
God sure esteems the growth and completing of one virtuous person, more that the restraint of ten vicious.
— John Milton
The true expression of Christian character is not in good-doing but in God-likeness.
— Oswald Chambers
God looks at the clean hands, not the full ones.
— Publilius Syrus
Integrity... does not mean sinless, but it does describe a person who by God's grace "sin less."
— Sam Storms
God is like us to this extent, that whatever in us is good is like God.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Charity, by which God and neighbor are loved, is the most perfect friendship.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
God seeth different abilities and frailties of men, which may move His goodness to be merciful to their different improvements in virtue.
— William Law
The works of the righteous would be mortal sins if they would not be feared as mortal sins by the righteous themselves out of pious fear of God.
— Martin Luther
God looks with favor at pure, not full, hands.
— Publilius Syrus
Clean hands are better than full ones in the sight of God.
— Publilius Syrus