“Could we forbear dispute, and practice love, We should agree as angels do above. Where love presides, not vice alone does find, No entrance there, hut virtues stay behind: Both faith, and hope, and all the meaner train, Of mortal virtues, at the door remain. Love only enters as a native there, For born in heav'n, it does but sojourn here.” ShouldDoeBornBehindsPracticeVirtueDoorsAngelAgreeVicesMortalsNativeDisputesEntrancesHope And FaithHuts Author:Edmund Waller
“For me white privilege has turned out to be an elusive and fugitive subject. The pressure to avoid it is great, for in facing it I must give up the myth of meritocracy. If these things are true, this is not such a free country; one's life is not what one makes it; many doors open for certain people through no virtues of their own.” PeopleIfsGivingCountryLife IsCertainWhiteVirtueDoorsSubjectsGiving UpRacismPressurePrivilegeMythElusiveWhite PrivilegeFugitiveMeritocracyFree Country Author:Peggy McIntosh
“I do believe that nice religious people make the world safe for extremists by teaching us [...] that faith is a virtue, teaching us that there's something good about holding beliefs without any substantiating evidence. Once you buy into that, [...] then the door is opened to extremists who defend their extremism by saying, 'Oh well, it's my faith, you can't touch it, you can't criticise my faith, I don't even need to defend it because faith is faith.'” PeopleWorldNeedsBelieveWellsBeliefReligiousVirtueNiceDoorsTeachingSafeEvidenceExtremismExtremistOh WellCriticise Author:Richard Dawkins
“Wealth brings with it its own checks and balances. The basis of political economy is noninterference. The only safe rule is found in the self-adjusting meter of demand and supply. Open the doors of opportunity to talent and virtue and they will do themselves justice, and property will not be in bad hands. In a free and just commonwealth, property rushes from the idle and imbecile to the industrious, brave and persevering.” SelfHandsPoliticalFoundOpportunityWealthJusticeEconomyVirtueDoorsTalentBalanceSafeDemandBasesPropertyBraveChecksIdleMeterCommonwealthAdjustingIndustriousImbecilesPolitical Economy Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Open the doors of opportunity to talent and virtue and they will do themselves justice, and property will not be in bad hands.” HandsOpportunityJusticeVirtueDoorsTalentProperty Book:The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson Source: The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson
“There is a saying in Tibetan that "at the door of the miserable rich man sleeps the contented beggar". The point of this saying is not that poverty is a virtue, but that happiness does not come with wealth, but from setting limits to one's desires, and living within those limits with satisfaction.” MenDoeDesireWealthSleepPovertyVirtueRichDoorsLimitsSatisfactionHappySettingSettingsMiserableBeing HappyBeggarRich ManTibetanMiserable People Author:Dalai Lama
“It is impossible to draw near to God without sorrows, without which human righteousness cannot remain unchanged... If you desire virtue, than give yourself to every affliction, for afflictions produce humility. If someone abides in virtue without afflictions, the door of pride is opened to him.” IfsInspirationalGivingHumansChristianDesireReligiousVirtueImpossibleDoorsProduceHumilityPrideSorrowDrawsOrthodoxRighteousnessAffliction Author:Isaac of Nineveh
“It is well known that obedience is the chief among the initiatory virtues, for first it displaces presumption and then it engenders humility within us. Thus it becomes, for those who willingly embrace it, a door leading to the love of God? Thus humility should be the first concern of those who are fighting against the presumption of the devil, for as we advance it will be a sure guide to all the paths of virtue.” ShouldFirstsWellsChristianFightingKnownVirtuePathDoorsHumilityDevilConcernEmbraceGuidesChiefsObedienceGod LoveOrthodoxWell KnownOrthodox ChristianPresumption Author:Diadochos of Photiki