Brian Andreas Quotes

'Tis one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall.

Though a man cannot abstain from being weak, he may from being vicious.

The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous.

I always admired virtue - but I could never imitate it.

Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing.

The good were worthy of note because they battled and that battle was a great story, whereas the evil were evil because of moral laziness, or weakness, and that was ultimately a dull and uninteresting affair.

All men are frail; but thou shouldst reckon none so frail as thyself.

Blessed is he who has never been tempted; for he knows not the frailty of his rectitude.

No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good...Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is.

We live in a wondrous time in which the strong is weak because of his moral scruples and the weak grows strong because of his audacity.

Saintliness is also a temptation.

For myself I say deliberately, it is better to have a millstone tied round the neck and be thrown into the sea than to share the enterprises of those to whom the world has turned, and will turn, because they minister to its weaknesses and cover up the awful realities which it shudders to look at.

Let a man be endowed with ten virtues and have but one fault and the one fault will eclipse and darken all the virtues.

God is better served in resisting a temptation to evil than in many formal prayers.

Content not thyself that thou art virtuous in the general; for one link being wanting, the chain is defective.

We often wonder that certain men and women are left by God to the commission of sins that shock us. We wonder how, under the temptation of a single hour, they fall from the very heights of virtue and of honor into sin and shame. The fact is that there are no such falls as these, or there are next to none. These men and women are those who have dallied with temptation--have exposed themselves to the influence of it, and have been weakened and corrupted by it.

Everyone has their weak spot. The one thing that, despite your best efforts, will always bring you to your knees, regardless of how strong you are otherwise.

To refrain from evil and from strong drink and to be always, steadfast in virtue; this is the good luck.

Courage is virtue which champions the cause of right.

The Crucifixion and other historical precedents notwithstanding, many of us still believe that outstanding goodness is a kind of armor, that virtue, seen plain and bare, gives pause to criminality. But perhaps it is the other way around.

'Tis no sin to be tempted, but to be overcome.

Here's that which is too weak to be a sinner, honest water, which ne'er left man i' the mire.

One of the greatest artifices the devil uses to engage men in vice and debauchery, is to fasten names of contempt on certain virtues, and thus fill weak souls with a foolish fear of passing for scrupulous, should they desire to put them in practice.

Strong moral character results from consistent correct choices in the trials and testing of life. Your faith can guide you to those correct choices.

Everybody has their weaknesses.