Best failing & virtue Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: The Wisdom of the Rambler, Adventurer, and Idler

“Christianity offers reasons for not fearing death or the universe, and in so doing it fails to teach adequately the virtue of courage.”

Reason Universe Christianity Teach Virtue Failing Offers

Book:Bertrand Russell's Best

Source: Bertrand Russell's Best

“Nonsense prevails, modesty fails Grace and virtue turn into stupidity While the calendar fades almost all barricades to a pale compromise And our leaders have feasts on the backsides of beasts They still think they're the gods of antiquity If something you missed didn't even exist It was just an ideal is it such a surprise?”

Ifs Thinking Stills Turns Leader Virtue Grace Failing Ideals Surprise Stupidity Compromise Beast Nonsense Fades Modesty Pale Antiquity Calendars Barricades Backsides

Author:Elvis Costello

“We are, in the end, a sum of our parts, and when the body fails, all the virtues we hold dear go with it.”

Ends Body Virtue Failing Dear

Book:Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness

Source: Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness

“How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!”

Quality Virtue Failing Vices Reproach

Author:Honore de Balzac

“A slight failing in one virtue is enough to put all the others to sleep.”

Enough Sleep Virtue Failing

Book:The life of Saint Teresa of Jesus

Source: The life of Saint Teresa of Jesus

“Summer has come with the loveliness of a mother Heat, not warmth, now pours onto my face, aging me, taking me closer to death. Let it. I am here to live my story, to love my story. I will not fail to savor any gift out of a desire for self-preservation. Self-preservation is not a great virtue in this story.”

Self Stories Faces Mother Desire Virtue Failing Summer Aging Heat Warmth Preservation Self Preservation Loveliness

Author:N.D. Wilson

“Error is multiform (for evil is a form of the unlimited, as in the old Pythagorean imagery, and good of the limited), whereas success is possible in one way only (which is why it is easy to fail and difficult to succeed - easy to miss the target and difficult to hit it); so this is another reason why excess and deficiency are a mark of vice, and observance of the mean a mark of virtue: Goodness is simple, badness is manifold.”

Source: The Nicomachean ethics

“Men are not made religious by performing certain actions which are externally good, but they must first have righteous principles, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.”

Men Firsts Made Action Certain Religion Evil Religious Principles Virtue Failing Failure Performing Righteous Virtuous

Author:Martin Luther

“Truth suffers no loss if a vehement youth fails in finding it, in the same way that virtue and religion suffer no detriment if a criminal denies them.”

Ifs Way Suffering Loss Virtue Failing Youth Findings Deny Criminals Vehement

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Schiller (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Schiller (Illustrated)

“In the ordinary course of things, how many succeed in society merely by virtue of their manners, while others, however meritorious, fail through lack of them? After all, it's only barbarians who wear uncut precious stones.”

Success Courses Virtue Failing Failure Succeed Ordinary Stones Manners Barbarians Success Failure Precious Stones

Author:Lord Chesterfield

“Virtue is only a conflict by which we get the mastery of our failings; that, by which every man proves his peculiar power of understanding the will and spirit of God, is only a silent working of the inner man.”

Men Spirit Understanding Virtue Failing Conflict Prove Silent Every Man Peculiar Mastery Spirit Of God

Author:Friedrich Schleiermacher

“Facing the darkness, admitting the pain, allowing the pain to be pain, is never easy. This is why courage - big-heartedness - is the most essential virtue on the spiritual journey. But if we fail to let pain be pain - and our entire patriarchal culture refuses to let this happen - then pain will haunt us in nightmarish ways. We will become pain's victims instead of the healers we might become.”

Ifs Way Soul Bigs Might Happens Pain Spiritual Culture Easy Darkness Virtue Failing Journey Essentials Victim Refuse Allowing Healer Admitting Spiritual Journey

Author:Matthew Fox

“Wonder of wonders! Intrinsically all living beings are Buddhas, endowed with wisdom and virtue, but because men's minds have become inverted through delusive thinking they fail to perceive this.”

Thinking Men Mind Wonder Virtue Failing Perceive Inverted

Author:Gautama Buddha

“Praying that does not result in right thinking and right living is a farce. We have missed the whole office of prayer if it fails to purge our character and correct conduct. We have failed entirely to understand the virtue of prayer, if it does not bring about the revolutionizing of life. In the very nature of tings, we must either quit praying or quit our bad conduct.”

Ifs Thinking Doe Whole Character Prayer Results Virtue Failing Praying Office Quitting Farce

Author:Edward McKendree Bounds

“It is a noble and great thing to cover the blemishes and excuse the failings of a friend; to draw a curtain before his weaknesses and to display his perfections; to bury his shortcomings in silence but to proclaim his virtues on the housetop.”

Silence Virtue Failing Draws Weakness Perfection Excuse Noble Great Things Display Curtains Shortcomings

Author:Robert South

“A discerning man, when he eats grapes, takes only the ripe ones and leaves the sour. Thus also the discerning mind carefully marks the virtues which he sees in any person. A mindless man seeks out the vices and failings ... Even if you see someone sin with your own eyes, do not judge; for often even your eyes are deceived.”

Ifs Men Inspirational Mind Persons Eye Christian Religious Sin Virtue Failing Judging Mark Vices Orthodox Deceived Grapes Ripe Sour Mindless Discerning Do Not Judge

Author:John Climacus

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