Virtuous Quotes
My dear, be a good man be virtuous be religious be a good man. Nothing else will give you any comfort when you come to lie here. ...God bless you all.
Religion either makes men wise and virtuous, or it makes them set up false pretenses to both.
To be innocent is to be not guilty; but to be virtuous is to overcome our evil inclinations.
What can be happier than for a man, conscious of virtuous acts, and content with liberty, to despise all human affairs?
A virtuous and a Christianlike conclusion-- To pray for them that have done scathe to us.
One woman is fair, yet I am well; another is wise, yet I am well; another virtuous, yet I am well; but till all graces be in one woman, one woman shall not come in my grace.
The tempter or the tempted, who sins most? Ha! Not she: nor doth she tempt: but it is I That, lying by the violet in the sun, Do as the carrion does, not as the flower, Corrupt with virtuous season.
The heart of a virtuous person has settled down and he does not rush about at things. A person of little merit is not at peace but walks about making trouble and is in conflict with all.
I have always considered David Hume as approaching as nearly the idea of a perfectly wise and virtuous man as perhaps the nature of human frailty will allow.
Nature attunes children to receive the coded messages that parents issue how to live a joyful and virtuous life.
Most priests wish they were as righteous as they seem to most members of their congregations.
Let them judge you, but remain virtuous.Let them criticize you, but remain wise.Let them misunderstand you, but remain kind. Let them hate you, but remain exceptional.
If a nation and any nation on this earth could raise up the standard of personal responsibility in their society, you will in no time see a nation of virtuous people, developed and civilized.
This virtuous and very industrious woman needs physical strength and ability to do the work of her life, the work of love.
What is GRACE?An individual, inspiring and virtuous impulse, that streams the spirit with life!
To achieve the ultimate Confucian objective—a virtuous society—America has favored the rule of laws over Confucian-style virtues.
I am the most pious person in the room. Even though I have no pie - I have pizza, and what can be more virtuous than eating all by yourself?
In the beginning, some people try to appear that everything about them is "in black and white, " until later their true colors come out.
