Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine.

Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.

You can’t take care of charity unless you take care of yourself first.

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.

Philanthropy should be voluntary.

Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.

In the divine milieu, all the elements of the universe touch each other by that which is most inward and ultimate in them. There they concentrate, little by little, all that is purest and most attractive in them without loss and without danger of subsequent corruption.

For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness.

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.

Patience is a virtue, and I’m learning patience. It’s a tough lesson.

I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion about the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it.

Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.

There are not a few among the disciples of charity who require, in their vocation, scarcely less excitement than the votaries of pleasure in theirs.

But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.

The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.

All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.

Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.

Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.

Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.

Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes.

Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.

It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.

Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.

Human self-understanding changes with time, and so also human consciousness deepens.

It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see.

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

My mother always wanted to give back.

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

Don’t let anybody make you think God chose America as His divine messianic force to be a sort of policeman of the whole world.

Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.

Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

Yes, the Bible should be taught in our schools because it is necessary to understand the Bible if we are to truly understand our own culture and how it came to be. The Bible has influenced every part of western culture from our art, music, and history, to our sense of fairness, charity, and business.

One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.

There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail.

Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.

Where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe.

He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it.

When God sneezed, I didn’t know what to say.

The superior man does not, even for the space of a single meal, act contrary to virtue. In moments of haste, he cleaves to it. In seasons of danger, he cleaves to it.

If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.

Our personal intelligence is everlasting and divine.

I have been working for Africans since I was 18, when I got involved with the Nelson Mandela concerts. I got involved with debt cancellation because Desmond Tutu demanded that the world respond to that situation.

Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on the confines of the two everlasting empires, necessity and free will.

I always knew that St. Jude was an amazing organization but meeting the kids and seeing how the hospital works first hand was truly beautiful. It doesn’t feel like a regular hospital all dreary and sad. It’s a colorful, beautiful, comfortable, fun place to live and the energy is wonderful.

There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

Giving a poor person money keeps them poor.

We are Divine enough to ask and we are important enough to receive.

Genius, when young, is divine.

Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.

Stay humble and be concerned for the less fortunate.

God is the same God, always and everywhere. He is omnipresent not virtually only, but also substantially, for virtue cannot subsist without substance.

Strength was the virtue of paganism; obedience is the virtue of Christianity.

All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.

The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous.

The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.

I have feelings too. I am still human. All I want is to be loved, for myself and for my talent.

God doesn’t do things halfway. He goes all out! When God does something, it’s not just barely enough, mediocre or lukewarm.

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.