I'm very much a Christian in ideals and ethics, especially in terms of belief in fairness, a deep set obligation to others, and the virtues of charity, tolerance and generosity that we associate with traditional Christian teaching.
Gilbert Jonas, painter, believed in his star. . . . His own faith was not, however, without its virtues because it consisted in admitting, in some obscure way, that he would obtain many things without deserving them.
Those possest of the greatest Virtues are always least pleas'd with the repetition of them.
Without courage, all other virtues are useless.
If vanity does not entirely overthrow the virtues, at least it makes them all totter.
All citizens including women are equally admissible to all public dignities, offices, and employments, according to their capacity, and with no other distinction than that of their virtues and talents.
I dislike being an anvil for the hammering out of other people's virtues.
Let us go home and cultivate our virtues.
It is a duty we owe to posterity to see that our children shall know the virtues, and rise worthy of their sires.
Humility is the mother of many virtues because from it obedience, fear, reverence, patience, modesty, meekness and peace are born. He who is humble easily obeys everyone, fears to offend anyone, is at peace with everyone, is kind with all.
Nothing is more unjust, however common, than to charge with hypocrisy him that expresses zeal for those virtues which he neglects to practice; since he may be sincerely convinced of the advantages of conquering his passions without having yet obtained the victory as a man may be confident of the advantages of a voyage or a journey, without having courage or industry to undertake it, and may honestly recommend to others those attempts which he neglects himself.
Count it one of the highest virtues upon earth to educate faithfully the children of others, which so few, and scarcely any, do by their own.
Death is the advertisement, at the end of an autobiography, wherein people discover its virtues.
You love people, not for what you do for them or what they do for you. You love them for their values; their virtues.
It can fairly be said of John Smith that he had all the virtues of a Scottish presbyterian, but none of the vices.
no one ever gossips about the virtues of others
Actions receive their tincture from the times, And as they change are virtues made or crimes
Democracy's worst fault is that its leaders are likely to reflect the faults and virtues of their constituents.
Christian virtues unite men. Racism separates them.
Our virtues and view spring from one root.