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    G. K. Chesterton
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    The act of defending any of the cardinal virtues has to-day all the exhilaration of a vice.

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    Winston S. Churchill
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    There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues, the most dominating virtues of humans, are created, strengthened and maintained.

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    Ernest Hemingway
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    The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wo...

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    Edmund Burke
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    Ephesians 4:2, Matthew 23:12, Colossians 3:12, Micah 6:8, Proverbs 22:4, 1 Peter 5:5-6, James 4:6
    True humility—the basis of the Christian system—is the low but deep and firm foundation of all virtues.

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    Will Durant
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    Proverbs 4:23, Daniel 6:3-4 , Exodus 35:30-35, Philippians 4:8, Colossians 3:23-24 , Psalm 1:1-3
    Excellence is an art won by training and habituation: we not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but rather have these because we have acted rightly; these virtues are formed in man by d...

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    Blaise Pascal
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    The strength of a man’s virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.

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    Benjamin Rush
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    Liberty without virtue would be no blessing to us.

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    John Chrysostom
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    Ephesians 2:8-9, Titus 3:5, Romans 3:23-24, Luke 18:13-14, Psalm 51:1, James 2:13, 1 Peter 1:3
    Even if we stand at the very summit of virtue, it is by mercy that we shall be saved.

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    Reinhold Niebuhr
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    Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in our lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope. Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; th...

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    Theodore Roosevelt
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    Americanism means the virtues of courage, honor, justice, truth, sincerity, and hardihood - the virtues that made America.

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    John Chrysostom
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    Patience is the queen of virtues.

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    Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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    John 16:33, Proverbs 24:10, 1 Peter 5:10, Isaiah 40:31, Philippians 4:13, 2 Corinthians 4:8-9, Romans 5:3-5
    Of all the virtues we can learn, no trait is more useful, more essential for survival, and more likely to improve the quality of life than the ability to transform adversity into an enjoyable challeng...

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    Michael Gerson
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    Freedom requires virtues it does not produce and may even help undermine.

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    C. S. Lewis
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    1 Corinthians 13:13, Titus 2:11-13, Hebrews 11:1, Philippians 3:20, 1 Peter 1:3-4, 2 Corinthians 4:17-18, Romans 8:24-25
    Hope is one of the Theological virtues. A continual looking forward to the eternal world is not as some modern people think, a form of escapism or wishful thinking. But it's one of the great thing...

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    John Chrysostom
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    Ephesians 4:2, Micah 6:8, Colossians 3:12, 1 Peter 5:6, James 4:10, Matthew 18:4
    Humility is the garden of all the virtues.

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    C. S. Lewis
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    Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

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    Maya Angelou
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    Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can’t practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without co...

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    Richard G. Capen Jr.
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    Romans 12:3, Colossians 3:12, James 4:10, 1 Peter 5:5-6, Philippians 2:3-4, Proverbs 22:4, Matthew 23:12
    Of all the values at our disposal, humility seems to be the least attractive. You don’t see many television ads or billboards extolling the virtues of humility, do you?

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    Parker J. Palmer
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    But if I am to let my life speak things I want to hear, things I would gladly tell others, I must also let it speak things I do not want to hear and would never tell anyone else! My life is not only a...

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    Stanley Hauerwas
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    To be formed in the habits, the virtues, of the prayer we are taught to pray means that Christians cannot help but appear as a threat to the legitimating ideologies of those who rule. Christians do no...

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    Jerry Bridges
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    Both gentleness and meekness are born of power, not weakness. There is a pseudo-gentleness that is effeminate, and there is a pseudo-meekness that is cowardly. But a Christian is to be gentle and meek...

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    Alexis de Tocqueville
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    Individualism at first dries up only the source of public virtues, but, in the long run, it attacks and destroys all the others and is finally absorbed into egoism.

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    Alexis de Tocqueville
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    Individualism is a mature and calm feeling, which disposes each member of the community to sever himself from the mass of his fellows and to draw apart with his family and his friends, so that after h...

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    Jerry Bridges
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    Sanctification is the work of the Holy Spirit in us whereby our inner being is progressively changed, freeing us more and more from sinful traits and developing within us over time the virtues of Chri...

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    Hermann Bavinck
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    So the whole human being is image and likeness of God, in soul and body, in all human faculties, powers, and gifts. Nothing in humanity is excluded from God’s image; it stretches as far as our humanit...

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    Les and Leslie Parrott
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    Marriages can never be perfect because people are not perfect. Being human, every bride and groom has faults as well as virtues. We are at times gloomy, cranky, selfish, or unreasonable. We are a mixt...

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    John Climacus
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    Luke 14:11, Micah 6:8, 1 Peter 5:5-6, Proverbs 15:33, Philippians 2:3
    An angel fell from Heaven without any other passion except pride, and so we may ask whether it is possible to ascend to Heaven by humility alone, without any other of the virtues.

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    Jonathan K. Dodson
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    When goodness becomes who we are, not just what we occasionally do, we become virtuous. When I was a kid, I ate sticks of rock candy that had the word Brighton stamped on the end. No matter how much I...

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    Rupertus Meldenius
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    In Essentials Unity; In Non-Essentials Liberty; In All Things Charity

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    François Fénelon
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    Courage is a virtue only so far as it is directed by prudence.
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