I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.
Marcus Tullius CiceroThere is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.
Thomas JeffersonA large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaSometimes we look at gay being a bigger sin than being proud or not telling the truth. I don’t think God categorizes sins.
Joel OsteenThe idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.
Elbert HubbardA just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.
Joseph AddisonSuspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.
Hosea BallouHappiness is a virtue, not its reward.
Baruch SpinozaCourage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
C. S. LewisTruth is mysterious, elusive, always to be conquered. Liberty is dangerous, as hard to live with as it is elating. We must march toward these two goals, painfully but resolutely, certain in advance of our failings on so long a road.
Albert CamusSelf-centered indulgence, pride and a lack of shame over sin are now emblems of the American lifestyle.
Billy GrahamWe object not to the narration of the deeds of our unregenerate condition, but to the mode in which it is too often done. Let sin have its monument, but let it be a heap of stones cast by the hands of execration – not a mausoleum erected by the hands of affection.
Charles SpurgeonThere is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy.
ChanakyaGenerosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
Khalil GibranBlessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself.
Baruch SpinozaMortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbour’s buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder.
George EliotI am a dangerous man when turned loose with a typewriter.
Charles BukowskiIt is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
Thomas JeffersonOne that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
Edmund BurkeWisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.
Ralph Waldo EmersonNo sinner is ever saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon.
Mark TwainI think I have a big fear of things spiraling out of control. Out of control and dangerous and reckless and thoughtless scares me, because people get hurt.
Taylor SwiftThere is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail.
Aldous HuxleyThe superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort.
ConfuciusPeace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.
Baruch SpinozaThe only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it… I can resist everything but temptation.
Oscar WildeDependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
Thomas JeffersonI can resist everything except temptation.
Oscar WildeVirtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.
Francis BaconThe 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.
Marcus AureliusYou will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit.
Oscar WildeKnow then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.
Alexander PopeSatan is the master distracter. He is always working to keep us off track in our walk with God.
Joyce Meyer‚Tis one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall.
William ShakespeareIf there’s something dangerous, sauces are dangerous for the body.
Karl LagerfeldNatural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Marcus AureliusTemptation is an irresistible force at work on a movable body.
H. L. MenckenTo suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.
James MadisonTo enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one’s family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one’s own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.
BuddhaAllah’s the Arabic term for God. Stand up for God, fight for God, work for God and do the right thing, and go the right way, things will end up in your corner.
Muhammad AliThe virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
AristotleI am not virtuous. Our sons will be if we shed enough blood to give them the right to be.
Jean-Paul SartreThe Scoutmaster who is a hero to his boys holds a powerful lever to their development but at the same time brings a great responsibility on himself. They are quick enough to see the smallest characteristic about him, whether it be a virtue or a vice.
Robert Baden-PowellThe fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous.
Niccolo Machiavelli‚You are no saint,‘ says the devil. Well, if I am not, I am a sinner, and Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners. Sink or swim, I go to Him; other hope, I have none.
Charles SpurgeonWe cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either.
Niccolo MachiavelliA tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him.
George OrwellThe object of the superior man is truth.
ConfuciusThe Israelites‘ slavery in Egypt is the equivalent of our slavery to sin. God sent Moses to deliver them from bondage, and He sent Jesus Christ to set us free.
Joyce MeyerIt is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.
VoltaireWhen virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder.
Lao TzuIn truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.
Thomas JeffersonOne of the powerful temptations is that of the cinema palace. The cinema has undoubtedly an enormous attraction for boys, and people are constantly cudgelling their brains how to stop it. But it is one of those things which would be very difficult to stop even if it were altogether desirable.
Robert Baden-PowellSilence is the virtue of fools.
Francis BaconThose 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.
AristotleIt is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.
Benjamin FranklinNo matter what has happened to you in the past or what is going on in your life right now, it has no power to keep you from having an amazingly good future if you will walk by faith in God. God loves you! He wants you to live with victory over sin so you can possess His promises for your life today!
Joyce MeyerIn some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.
J. Robert OppenheimerTemptation is just the feeling that you’re the most independent person on planet Earth. That you know everything. That’s something that we all go through as a kid. Now, this lifestyle that I’m in, the same thing exists! But it’s 10 times worse, because everything is at my disposal. When you’re in the limelight, you can get anything you want.
Kendrick LamarPart of the core information that I’ve been purveying is that identity politics is a sick game. You don’t play racial, ethnic, and gender identity games. The Left plays them on behalf of the oppressed, let’s say, and the Right tends to play them on behalf of nationalism and ethnic pride. I think they’re equally dangerous.
Jordan Peterson