 The act of defending any of the cardinal virtues has today all the exhilaration of a vice. Author: G.K. Chesterton |
| Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc. Author: G.K. Chesterton |
| Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper. Author: G.K. Chesterton |
| There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true. Author: Francois Fenelon |
| True piety hath in it nothing weak, nothing sad, nothing constrained. It enlarges the heart; it is simple, free, and attractive. Author: Francois Fenelon |
| Sordid and infamous sensuality, the most dreadful evil that issued from the box of Pandora, corrupts the entire heart and eradicates every virtue. Author: Francois Fenelon |
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| The most virtuous of all men, says Plato, is he that contents himself with being virtuous without seeking to appear so. Author: Francois Fenelon |
| I will tell you what to hate. Hate hypocrisy; hate cant; hate intolerance, oppression, injustice, Pharisaism; hate them as Christ hated them - with a deep, abiding, God-like hatred. Author: Frederick W. Robertson |
| What the world calls virtue is a name and a dream without Christ. The foundation of all human excellence must be laid deep in the blood of the Redeemer's cross and in the power of his resurrection. Author: Frederick W. Robertson |
| Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder. Author: George Washington |
| I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man. Author: George Washington |
| The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests and despises it. Author: George Washington |
