Pastoral Resources

Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.

Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.

To desire and strive to be of some service to the world, to aim at doing something which shall really increase the happiness and welfare and virtue of mankind - this is a choice which is possible for all of us; and surely it is a good haven to sail for.

As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.

It is a natural virtue incident to our sex to be pitiful of those that are afflicted.

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.

Silver and gold are not the only coin; virtue too passes current all over the world.

There is no sanctuary of virtue like home.

There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true.

Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind.

What's vice today may be virtue, tomorrow.

My parents and grandparents have always been engaged in teaching or the medical profession or the priesthood, so I've sort of grown up with a sense of complicity in the lives of other people, so there's no virtue in that; it's the way one is raised.

I am and have always been a strong proponent of public education. But by the virtue of its very nature - publicly funded schools cannot offer the type of spiritual education that Catholic schools have long provided.

Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the love of truth and virtue, no matter whether he be a prince, or one of the people.

While many of us never knew Ronald Reagan personally, we felt close to him because we shared his lighthearted sense of humor, admired his uncommon virtue, and were moved by his remarkable wisdom.

Tolerance is a very dull virtue. It is boring. Unlike love, it has always had a bad press. It is negative. It merely means putting up with people, being able to stand things.

I think that I've been pigeon-holed by virtue of the fact that I've spent so much time in front of a green screen.

The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.

Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue.

It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit.