Quotes about Virtue
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
Once elected, the Pope is by virtue of the promise of Jesus to Peter, the Pope is preserved from the possibility of error. God would change any spend thrift politician into a responsible Pope.
— Pope Francis
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
He who loves goodness harbors angels, reveres reverence, and lives with God.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our fleshly nature tempts us to put ourselves above others or seek a position or place for ourselves instead of allowing others to have it.
— David Jeremiah
Wherefore did he [God] create passions within us, pleasures round about us, but that these rightly tempered are the very ingredients of virtue?
— John Milton
The core problem is not that we are too passionate about bad things, but that we are not passionate enough about good things.
— Larry Crabb
To be good, and to do good, is all we have to do.
— John Adams
I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.