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"To copy a virtue in another is more copying than it is virtue. Try to learn what that virtue is based upon."
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"Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set."
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Personal Development
"There is certainly no greater happiness than to be able to look back on a life usefully and virtuously employed to trace our own progress in existence by such tokens as excite neither shame nor sorrow."
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"Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much."
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"Virtues are in the popular estimate rather the exception than the rule."
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Personal Development
"He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place."
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"Three quarters of faith is boldness. Three quarters of wisdom is intelligence. Three quarters of love is kindness."
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"It is better to be kind than be impolite."
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"Life can only be live with grace, gratitude and generosity."
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"Never, in peace or war, commit your virtue or your happiness to the future."
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"They forget that for a Creator to create, He must be greater than His creation, thus He must be by definition not less than emotional."
Faith
"Without God, reality is madness. Reason will tell you so. You either madly trust in God, or you trust in a world gone mad without him."
Faith
"Though I despise it, I do not doubt His Love for the creatures. I have seen it -His ever-reaching outward for any hand that might reach back. At His love, I tremble yet believe."
Faith
"That's where thinking started, where thinking stopped, where all her prayers so long ago had dried up. She no longer prayed, nor even dreamed of changing her father. Her dreams now played variations on the theme of escape. And they were nothing more than that -just dreams, just play. She'd been alone at the end of her dreams so many times before and never had God helped her escape her father, because God couldn't, because she would never escape her need to love him."
Escape
"The Bible is the one book we've most succeeded in having them never read as a book. Keep it that way."
Books
"Finally, slowly, drippingly, degrade the term Choice down to its most meager means: The red car not the black one. The 9:25 showing, not the 7:15. Ritz not Wheat Thins."
Choice
"I say 'illusion of choice because, in many cases, the nature of their choices hardly reaches the level of will, but of merely perfunctory activity. For the most part, their desires are not too strong, they are too weak, apathetic and easily placated. They often can be tempted into doing Nothing."
Choice
"If they ever envision Goodness as a thing that exists outside them, some real thing they've been called to participate in by their actions, well then, we're headed right back toward The Virtues."
Virtue
"The eye is to light as the soul is to God."
Faith
"Grace runs downhill and now all his time is being redeemed."
Grace
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