Pastoral Resources

What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

Virtue is insufficient temptation.

Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.

I am a very conscientious golfer. I count every stroke. I learned to play that way. That is the only way I can play. It taught me to be honest. There is no greater virtue than honesty.

Elegance is inferior to virtue.

My purpose is to inspire people of all walks of life to discover the virtue inherent within them and to bring forth that virtue in their daily lives.

If vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary power cannot be established.

Modesty is the color of virtue.

Women's virtue is man's greatest invention.

Moral courage is higher and a rarer virtue than physical courage.

The whole mystery of temptation is to have sins suggested to us, and to be swept after them by a sudden enthusiasm, which sometimes feels as strong as the Spirit of God ever made in us the enthusiasm for virtue.

Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.

Humanity is the virtue of a woman, generosity that of a man.

It is safest to be moderately base - to be flexible in shame, and to be always ready for what is generous, good, and just, when anything is to be gained by virtue.

The rewards of virtue alone abide secure.

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.

The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.

True virtue is life under the direction of reason.