Ludwig Tieck Quotes

God looks at the clean hands, not the full ones.

You can recognize women who are grateful to be a daughter of God by their outward appearance. These women understand their stewardship over their bodies and treat them with dignity.

It is safest to be moderately base - to be flexible in shame, and to be always ready for what is generous, good, and just, when anything is to be gained by virtue.

Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like yours, this earth would be God's Paradise.

I'm a very spiritual person, and I believe in God and all that kind of stuff. So my perfect type of guy would be spiritually grounded, extremely respectful and funny because I love to laugh.

I thank God that I can say on my death bed that I am a virtuous woman.

To those whose God is honor; only disgrace is a sin.

I can make a lord, but only God can make a gentleman.

Modesty is the color of virtue.

Honor is the inner garment of the Soul; the first thing put on by it with the flesh, and the last it layeth down at its separation from it.

Honor is the reward of virtue.

What we have in us of the image of God is the love of truth and justice.

If I conduct myself publicly and privately in a way that is honorable, not just to the people of the district that I represent but to God, then I will feel like I have been successful.

No age, sex, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one is vastly beneath the rank of man.

There is no true gracefulness which is not epitomized goodness.

Who sows virtue reaps honor.

Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.

Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of person you are. For you show me what your idea of humanity is.

There is reverence that we owe to everything in human shape.

Now, my father Matthias was not only eminent on account of is nobility, but had a higher commendation on account of his righteousness, and was in great reputation in Jerusalem, the greatest city we have.

Humans love truth and justice, and rejoice in ceremonies that honor those qualities. For that sentiment we should indeed thank God.

We have these rules, the 'hero rules.' Like, a hero doesn't slouch. A hero walks proudly with his head up. A hero walks with a purpose. A hero's always a gentleman.

Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.

An honest man's the noblest work of God.

Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.