Pastoral Resources

Let us search into the records of Holy Writ, if out of this their great charter, there be not a seal grant of a lesser, though like privilege, and this by virtue of Christ, in that we have the honour to be accounted Abraham's seed as truly as they.

The war was a mirror; it reflected man's every virtue and every vice, and if you looked closely, like an artist at his drawings, it showed up both with unusual clarity.

Journalism can never be silent: that is its greatest virtue and its greatest fault. It must speak, and speak immediately, while the echoes of wonder, the claims of triumph and the signs of horror are still in the air.

A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity.

The virtue of paganism was strength; the virtue of Christianity is obedience.

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

The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.

Virtue is defined to be mediocrity, of which either extreme is vice.

There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.

To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must seem... ridiculous.

To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.

There are men whom a happy disposition, a strong desire of glory and esteem, inspire with the same love for justice and virtue which men in general have for riches and honors... But the number of these men is so small that I only mention them in honor of humanity.

Each must in virtue strive for to excel; That man lives twice that lives the first life well.

Self-respect is the cornerstone of all virtue.

All of us are experts at practicing virtue at a distance.

Value manifests itself as exchange value, as a quantitatively determined relationship, in virtue of the fact that one commodity can be exchanged for another.

Respect for self is the beginning of cultivating virtue in men and women.

The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.

It seems to me that many writers, by virtue of environments of culture, art and education, slip into writing because of their environments.

Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it.