Pastoral Resources

Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them.

There is a tendency around the world today to copy TV culture. And that is not always a virtue.

The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.

Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.

All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.

What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.

I design for real people. I think of our customers all the time. There is no virtue whatsoever in creating clothing or accessories that are not practical.

Compassion is not a popular virtue.

In short, all things that please the natural man in this world, are, to a true Christian, only so many crosses and temptations, allurements of sin and snares of death, that continually exercise his virtue.

Affliction is a school of virtue; it corrects levity, and interrupts the confidence of sinning.

Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.

The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

God has been very good to me, for I never dwell upon anything wrong which a person has done, so as to remember it afterwards. If I do remember it, I always see some other virtue in that person.

According to the new ethics, virtue is not restrictive but expansive, a sentiment and even an intoxication.

The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.

Silence is the virtue of fools.

Judges ought to be more leaned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.