Quotes about Virtue
Pain is God's midwife, that helps some virtue into existence.
— Henry Ward Beecher
There are two restraints which God has laid upon human nature, shame and fear; shame is the weaker, and has place only in those in whom there are some reminders of virtue.
— John Tillotson
We're not the paragons of virtue that we'd all like to think we are. And so, to shatter that myth, God will use suffering to expose the stuff of which we're made.
— Joni Eareckson Tada
As often as we do good, we offer sacrifices to God.
— Aristotle
Human beings judge one another by their external actions. God judges them by their moral choices.
— CS Lewis
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