| Quotation 1 : | VIRTUES AND VICES
"Chastity is the most unpopular of the Christian virtues." |
| C.S. Lewis |
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| Quotation 2 : | VIRTUES AND VICES
"Gratitude is the mother of all the virtues." |
| G.K. Chesterton |
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| Quotation 3 : | VIRTUES AND VICES
"The act of defending any of the cardinal virtues has today all the exhilaration of a vice." |
| G.K. Chesterton |
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| Quotation 4 : | VIRTUES AND VICES
"True humility is a kind of self-annihilation; and this is the centre of all virtues." |
| John Wesley |
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| Quotation 5 : | VIRTUES AND VICES
"Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all virtues." |
| Joseph Hall |
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| Quotation 6 : | VIRTUES AND VICES
"To love God is the greatest of virtues; to be loved by God is the greatest of blessings." |
| Author Unknown |
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| Quotation 7 : | VIRTUES AND VICES
"If you plan to build a tall house of virtues, you must first lay deep foundations of humlilty." |
| Augustine |
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| Quotation 8 : | VIRTUES AND VICES
"Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point." |
| C.S. Lewis |
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| Quotation 9 : | VIRTUES AND VICES
"Virtues go ever in troops; so thick that sometimes some are hid in the crowd, which yet are virtues though they appear not." |
| Joseph Hall |
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| Quotation 10 : | VIRTUES AND VICES
"Patience is the queen of virtues." |
| John Chrysostom |
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| Quotation 11 : | VIRTUES AND VICES
"Christianity fuels everything I write. Being a Christian means that I am called upon to do battle against lies, injustice, cruelty, hypocrisy--you know, all the virtues in the church of liberalism. As St. Paul said, if Christ is not risen from the dead, t" |
| Ann Coulter |
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| Quotation 12 : | VIRTUES AND VICES
"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." |
| Augustine |
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| Quotation 13 : | VIRTUES AND VICES
"Vigilance in watching opportunity; tact and daring in seizing upon opportunity; force and persistence in crowding opportunity to its utmost of possible achievement -- these are the martial virtues which must command success." |
| Austin Phelps |
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| Quotation 14 : | VIRTUES AND VICES
"Many things are possible for the person who has hope. Even more is possible for the person who has faith. And still more is possible for the person who knows how to love. But everything is possible for the person who practices all three virtues." |
| Brother Lawrence |
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| Quotation 15 : | VIRTUES AND VICES
"God's purpose in promising to reward with heavenly and eternal honors the faithful service of His saints is to win them from the pursuit of earthly riches and pleasures, to sustain them in the fires of persecution, and to encourage them in the exercise of" |
| C.I. Scofield |
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| Quotation 16 : | VIRTUES AND VICES
"Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know." |
| Charles Kingsley |
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| Quotation 17 : | VIRTUES AND VICES
"Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing." |
| Francis Bacon |
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| Quotation 18 : | VIRTUES AND VICES
"Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper." |
| G.K. Chesterton |
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| Quotation 19 : | VIRTUES AND VICES
"Many works of fiction may be read with safety; some even with profit; but the constant familiarity, even with such as are not exceptionable in themselves, relaxes the mind, which needs hardening; dissolves the heart, which wants fortifying; stirs the imag" |
| Hannah More |
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| Quotation 20 : | VIRTUES AND VICES
"We are apt to mistake our vocation in looking out of the way for occasions to exercise great and rare virtues, and stepping over the ordinary ones which lie directly in the road before us." |
| Hannah More |
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| Quotation 21 : | VIRTUES AND VICES
"Character is a unity, and all the virtues must advance together to make the perfect man. This method of sanctification, nevertheless, is in the true direction. It is only in the details of execution that it fails." |
| Henry Drummond |
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| Quotation 22 : | VIRTUES AND VICES
"Celibacy, like the fly in the heart of an apple, dwells in perpetual sweetness, but sits alone, and is confined and dies in singularity; but marriage, like the useful bee, builds a house, and gathers sweetness from every flower, and labors and unites into" |
| Jeremy Taylor |
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| Quotation 23 : | VIRTUES AND VICES
"A good wife is heaven's last, best gift to man, - his gem of many virtues, his casket of jewels; her voice is sweet music, her smiles his brightest day, her kiss the guardian of his innocence, her arms the pale of his safety, her industry his surest wealt" |
| Jeremy Taylor |
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| Quotation 24 : | VIRTUES AND VICES
"Both gentleness and meekness are born of power, not weakness. There is a pseudo-gentleness that is effeminate, and there is a pseudo-meekness that is cowardly. But a Christian is to be gentle and meek because those are Godlike virtues... We should never b" |
| Jerry Bridges |
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| Quotation 25 : | VIRTUES AND VICES
"Love binds together all virtues of Christian character. Love is not so much a character trait as the inner disposition of the soul that produces them all... Though love may be more a motivational force than an actual display of Christian virtue, it always" |
| Jerry Bridges |
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| Quotation 26 : | VIRTUES AND VICES
"Prayer is the key of perfection and of sovereign happiness; it is the efficacious means of getting rid of all vices and of acquiring all virtues; for the way to become perfect is to live in the presence of God." |
| Madame Guyon |
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| Quotation 27 : | VIRTUES AND VICES
"It is harder to die to our virtues than to our vices; but the one is just as necessary as the other for perfect union. Our attachments are the stronger as they are more spiritual." |
| Madame Guyon |
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| Quotation 28 : | VIRTUES AND VICES
"Why should we complain that we have been stripped of the divine virtues, if we had not hidden them away as our own? Why should we complain of a loss, if we had no property in the thing lost? or why does deprivation give us so much pain, except because of" |
| Madame Guyon |
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| Quotation 29 : | VIRTUES AND VICES
"Some saints have been sanctified by the easy and determined practice of all the virtues, but there are others who owe their sanctification to having endured with perfect resignation the privation of every virtue." |
| Madame Guyon |
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| Quotation 30 : | VIRTUES AND VICES
"The defects of a preacher are soon spied. Let him be endued with ten virtues, and have but one fault, and that one fault will eclipse and darken all his virtues and gifts, so evil is the world in these times." |
| Martin Luther |
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| Quotation 31 : | VIRTUES AND VICES
"In some dispositions there is such an envious kind of pride that they cannot endure that any but themselves should be set forth for excellent; so that when they hear one justly praised, they will either seek to dismount his virtues, or, if they be like a" |
| Owen Feltham |
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| Quotation 32 : | VIRTUES AND VICES
"You must keep your memory clean and pure, as it were a wedlock chamber, from all strange thoughts, fancies and imaginations, and it must be trimmed and adorned with holy meditations and virtues of Christ's holy crucified life and passion: That God may con" |
| Robert Leighton |
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| Quotation 33 : | VIRTUES AND VICES
"Beware of self-righteousness in every possible shape and form. Some people get as much harm from their "virtues" as others do from their sins." |
| J.C. Ryle |
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