Browsing Quotes With Tag: virtue (11)
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The only control placed on us is self-control—self-control born of respect for the divine power this gift represents.
Speaker: Elder Jeffrey R. HollandSource: Personal Purity, Feb 2000Posted: 13 Jun 2016 at 6:53 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Most of us are loaded with Original Sin, but a surprising number of us – not me, God knows – are loaded with Original Virtue. Ain’t that sweet?
Speaker: Kurt VonnegutSource: If This Isn't Nice, What Is?Posted: 27 Jun 2014 at 2:48 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.
Speaker: Bertrand RussellPosted: 20 Mar 2009 at 7:09 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration
Speaker: ConfuciusPosted: 18 Mar 2009 at 6:28 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
Speaker: René DescartesPosted: 28 Nov 2008 at 1:15 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Consider your origin; you were not formed to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.
Speaker: DantePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 1:21 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
[Prometheus] believed in, and wanted to help, the human race as it is, full of both noble achievement and pitiable squalor, honoring both goodness and wickedness; a race where virtue, if rare, is at least costly.
Speaker: Philip VellacottPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:24 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
My genius, if I can call it that, is to combine a whole load of averageness into one compact frame. I’d say that there were millions like me, but there aren’t, really: lots of blokes have impeccable music taste but don’t read, lots of blokes read but are really fat, lots of blokes are sympathetic to feminism but have stupid beards, lots of blokes have a Woody Allen sense of humor but look like Woody Allen. Lots of blokes drink too much, lots of blokes behave stupidly when they drive cars, lots of blokes get into fights, or show off about money, or take drugs. I don’t do any of these things, really; if I do OK with women, it’s not because of the virtues I have, but because of the shadows I don’t have.
Speaker: Nick HornbyPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 9:06 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means, at the point of highest reality. A chastity or honesty or mercy which yields to danger will be chaste or honest or merciful only on conditions. Pilate was merciful till it became risky.
Speaker: C.S. LewisPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 8:42 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
All virtues are less formidable to us once the man is aware that he has them.
Speaker: C.S. LewisPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 8:37 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
He cannot ‘tempt’ to virtue as we do to vice. He wants them to learn to walk and must therefore take away His hand; and if only the will to walk is really there He is pleased with their stumbles… Our cause is never more in danger than when a human, no longer desiring, but still intending, to do our Enemy’s will, looks round upon a universe from which every trace of Him seems to have vanished, and asks why he has been forsaken, and still obeys.
Speaker: C.S. LewisPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 8:34 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment!