#virtues

You try to draw everything into the net of your faith, father, but you can't steal all the virtues. Gentleness isn't Christian, self-sacrifice isn't Christian, charity isn't, remorse isn't. I expect the cavemen wept to see another's tears. ↗

— Graham Greene

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They will envy you for your success, your wealth, for your intelligence, for your looks, for your status - but rarely for your wisdom. ↗

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#modern-values #priorities #truths #values #wealth-and-virtues

the problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure there going to have some pretty annoying virtues ↗

— Elizabeth Taylor

#virtues #life

No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#vice #virtues #education

Your favorite virtue? An appreciation for irony. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#virtues #irony

Galatians 5:22-23 describes the fruit of the Spirit, which is "love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control." Notice the verse does not say the "fruits" of the Spirit, but fruit. The fruit, or result, of the Spirit working in our lives is that we become not just some but all of these things: more loving, more patient, more faithful, and so forth. This verse is not a to-do list for us to work through, but a description of the transformation that occurs when God's Spirit begins to work in us. ↗

— Keri Wyatt Kent

#christian #faith #holy-spirit #religion #virtues

In the absence of willpower the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless. ↗

— Aleister Crowley

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Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess! ↗

— Charles Dickens

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Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues. ↗