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“Good-faith re-examination of a position you've held in the past should be seen as a virtue, not a vice.”

Should Past Virtue Position Vices Examination Good Faith

Author:Mark Udall

“When we think of the height of God's infinity we should not despair of His compassion reaching us from such a height; and when we recall the infinite depth of our fall through sin we should not refuse to believe that the virtue which has been killed in us will rise again. For God can accomplish both these things: He can come down and illumine our intellect with spiritual knowledge, and He can raise up the virtue within us and exalt it with Himself through works of righteousness.”

“He who devoutly strives to attain wisdom and is on his guard against the invisible powers, should pray that both natural discrimination - whose light is but limited - and the illuminating grace of the Spirit abide in him. The first by means of practice trains the flesh in virtue, the second illuminates the intellect so that it chooses above all else companionship with wisdom; and through wisdom it destroys the strongholds of evil and pulls down 'all the self-esteem that exalts itself against the knowledge of God' (II Cor. 10:5).”

“A vital difference between the professional man and a man of business is that money making to the professional man should, by virtue of his assumption, be incidental; to the businessman it is primary. Money has its limitations; while it may buy quantity, there is something beyond it and that is quality.”

Men Should May Differences Quality Virtue Primaries Limitation Making Money Assumption Quantity Consumerism Businessman Overconsumption

Author:Frank Lloyd Wright

“If there is a virtue in the world at which we should always aim, it is cheerfulness.”

Ifs World Should Joy Virtue Aim Cheerfulness

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.”

Should Wells Children Art Parent Knowledge Virtue Concern Careful Manners Innocence Good Manners More Knowledge Speaking Well

Author:R. Buckminster Fuller

“Spontaneously to God should turn the soul, Like the magnetic needle to the pole; But what were that intrinsic virtue worth, Suppose some fellow, with more zeal than knowledge, Fresh from St. Andrew's College, Should nail the conscious needle to the north?”

Should Soul Turns Virtue Influence College Conscious Fellows Nails Zeal Needles Andrew Magnetic

Author:Thomas Hood

“No power or virtue of man could ever have deserved that what has been fated should not have taken place.”

Men Should Has Beens Virtue Taken Fate

Author:Ammianus Marcellinus

“A man in love prefers his passion to every other consideration, and is fonder of his mistress than he is of virtue. Should she prove vicious, she makes vice lovely in his eyes.”

Men Love Should Eye Passion Virtue Prove Vices Lovely His Eyes Consideration Vicious Mistress

Book:Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)

“Christianity seems at first to be all about morality, all about duties and rules and guilt and virtue, yet it leads you on, out of all that, into something beyond. One has a glimpse of a country where they do not talk of those things, except perhaps as a joke. Every one there is filled full with what we should call goodness as a mirror is filled with light. But they do not call it goodness. They do not call it anything. They are not thinking of it. They are too busy looking at the source from which it comes.”

Source: A Year with C. S. Lewis: Daily Readings from His Classic Works