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“It is not by change of place that we can come nearer to Him who is in every place, but by the cultivation of pure desires and virtuous habits.”

Desire Habit Pure Virtuous Cultivation

Book:On Christian Doctrine

Source: On Christian Doctrine

“The mind of man can never be wholly barren. Through our whole lives we are subject to successive impressions; for, either new ideas are continually flowing in, or traces of the old ones are marked deeper. If, therefore, you be not acquiring good principles be assured that you are acquiring bad ones; if you be not forming virtuous habits you are, how insensibly soever to yourselves, forming vicious ones.”

Ifs Men Mind Ideas Whole Principles Subjects Habit Deeper Whole Life Impression Virtuous New Ideas Vicious Assured Barren

Book:Views of Christian truth, piety, and morality: selected from the writings of Dr. Priestley : with a memoir of his life

Source: Views of Christian truth, piety, and morality: selected from the writings of Dr. Priestley : with a memoir of his life

“Acts of virtue ripen into habits; and the goodly and permanent result is the formation or establishment of a virtuous character.”

Character Results Virtue Habit Permanent Establishment Virtuous Formation

Book:On the Adaptation of External Nature to the Moral and Intellectual Constitution of Man

Source: On the Adaptation of External Nature to the Moral and Intellectual Constitution of Man

“They that are virtuous from principle may receive confidence in every capacity; but they that are so from custom or habit, are capable of trust only in matters of ordinary and settled occurrence.”

May Matter Principles Virtue Habit Capable Ordinary Capacity Customs Virtuous

Author:Norm MacDonald

“When virtuous mental attitudes, like mindfulness, respect, and compassion, are invoked to justify nonvirtuous acts like hunting, fishing, and eating animal products, the mental attitudes are insincere. They are self-deceptions that we create to justify habits that in our hearts we know are wrong, but to which we have become attached.”

Knows Heart Self Animal Attitude Compassion Products Habit Mindfulness Eating Buddhist Deception Fishing Justify Hunting Virtuous Self Deception Mental Attitude Eating Animals Insincere

Author:Norm Phelps

“What virtue is there in a man who demonstrates goodness because he has been bred to it? It is his habit from youth. But a man who has known unkindness and want, for him to be kind and charitable to those who have been the cause of his misfortunes, that is a virtuous man.”

Men Want Kind Has Beens Causes Known Virtue Youth Habit Goodness Be Kind Misfortunes Virtuous Charitable Unkindness

Book:Silent on the Moor

Source: Silent on the Moor