"Not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point which means at the point of highest reality."

Morality, Virtue, Testing, Reality

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"Not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point which means at the point of highest reality."

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"The basic element that will distinguish those that are for godliness from those that are promoting ungodliness is if such individuals possess the spirit of godliness and not just a form of it."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"Proportion is almost impossible to human beings. There is no one who does not exaggerate."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

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"Friendship (as the ancients saw) can be a school of virtue, but also (as they did not see) a school of vice. It is ambivalent. It makes good men better and bad men worse."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"One act of a kind deed is better than thousand words of knowledge."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Morality, Kindness, Deed, Knowledge, Value

"Shame on the misguided, the blinded, the distracted and the divided. Shame. You have allowed deceptive men to corrupt and desensitize your hearts and minds to unethically fuel their greed."

Suzy Kassem, American Writer

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"But my eagerness to sacrifice little children in order to save mankind is wearing thin."

Orson Scott Card, American Writer

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"Extremes meet and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

Morality, Humility, Contrast, Behavior

"Your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing."

Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Russian Novelist

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"It is better to be kind than to seek much knowledge."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"It is better to be slave to righteousness of God than sin of satan."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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Explore more quotes by C. S. Lewis

"Nothing will shake a man-or at any rate a man like me-out of his merely verbal thinking and his merely notional beliefs. He has to be knocked silly before he comes to his senses. Only torture will bring out the truth. Only under torture does he discover it himself."

Truth

"Friendship (as the ancients saw) can be a school of virtue, but also (as they did not see) a school of vice. It is ambivalent. It makes good men better and bad men worse."

Morality

"Clearly one must read every good book at least once every ten years."

Knowledge

"God's presence is not the same as the feeling of God's presence and He may be doing most for us when we think He is doing least."

Faith

"It's not a question of God `sending' us to Hell. In each of us there is something growing up which will of itself be Hell unless it is nipped in the bud."

Spiritual

"The Divine "goodness" differs from ours, but it is not sheerly different; it differs from ours not as white from black, but as a perfect circle from a child's first attempt to draw a wheel. But when the child has learned to draw, it will know that the circle it then makes is what it was trying to make from the very beginning."

Spiritual

"We...advance toward a state of society in which not only each man but every impulse in each man claims carte blanche."

Society

"You are never to old to set another goal or to dream a new dream."

Inspirational

"What may be myth in one world may always be fact in some other."

Creativity

"Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead."

Emotion