Pastoral Resources

You can't have virtue without sin. What I'm after is having my characters' virtues defined by how they operate in a very sinful environment. That's how you test people.

Virtue could see to do what Virtue would by her own radiant light, though sun and moon where in the flat sea sunk.

I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.

Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.

By virtue of being born to humanity, every human being has a right to the development and fulfillment of his potentialities as a human being.

Nobody should trust their virtue with necessity, the force of which is never known till it is felt, and it is therefore one of the first duties to avoid the temptation of it.

Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.

The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.

In such a state, humility is the virtue of men, and their only defense; to walk humbly with God, never doubting, whatever befall, that His will is good, and that His law is right.

They act as if they supposed that to be very sanguine about the general improvement of mankind is a virtue that relieves them from taking trouble about any improvement in particular.

So what I do now is to pre-empt that by making the up into a virtue, and telling funny stories about how crap I am before people have a chance to notice it for themselves and think maybe I haven't realised.

The Menzies Government, by its participation in the plans for the development of other nations, can see the virtue of planning for them but apparently cannot see the virtue of a plan for Australia.

It is the State which educates its citizens in civic virtue, gives them a consciousness of their mission and welds them into unity.

I want to present interesting stories that don't qualify themselves just by virtue of their ethnographic type.

The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.

Virtue is its own reward, and brings with it the truest and highest pleasure; but if we cultivate it only for pleasure's sake, we are selfish, not religious, and will never gain the pleasure, because we can never have the virtue.

Often devotion to virtue arises from sated desire.

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

Of the Marines on Iwo Jima, uncommon valor was a common virtue.

It has been my fate in a long life of production to be credited chiefly with the equivocal virtue of industry, a quality so excellent in morals, so little satisfactory in art.