Martyn Lloyd-Jones Quotes

[T]here is no truth more thoroughly established, than that there exists . . . an indissoluble union between virtue and happiness.

Happiness is the object and design of our existence; and will be the end thereof, if we pursue the path that leads to it; and this path is virtue, uprightness, faithfulness, holiness, and keeping all the commandments of God.

Virtue is not an end in itself. Virtue is not its own reward or sacrificial fodder for the reward of evil. Life is the reward of virtue-and happiness is the goal and the reward of life.

Virtue is nothing but an act of loving that which is to be beloved, and that act is prudence, from whence not to be removed by constraint is fortitude; not to be allured by enticements is temperance; not to be diverted by pride is justice.

If the Coastal Republic had believed in the existence of virtue, it could at least have aspired to hypocrisy.

The order of nature [is] that individual happiness shall be inseparable from the practice of virtue.

What is the real relation between happiness and goodness? It is only within a few generations that men have found courage to say that there is none.

The paths of virtue, though seldom those of worldly greatness, are always those of pleasantness and peace.

The sum of all is, if we would most truly enjoy this gift of Heaven, let us become a virtuous people.

Let no pleasure tempt thee, no profit allure thee, no persuasion move thee, to do anything which thou knowest to be evil; so shalt thou always live jollity; for a good conscience is a continual Christmas.

Life is the reward of virtue. And happiness is the goal and reward of life.

It still remains true that no justification of virtue will enable a man to be virtuous.

He who talks much about virtue in the abstract, begins to be suspected; it is shrewdly guessed that where there is great preaching there will be little almsgiving.

May your mind be thoroughly impressed with the absolute necessity of universal virtue and goodness, as the only sure road to happiness, and may you walk therein with undeviating steps.

After all, why be good? How many will actually believe it of us?

Without virtue, happiness cannot be.

Void of freedom, what would virtue be?

...virtue is not merely a state in conformity with the right principle, but one that implies the right principle; and the right principle in moral conduct is prudence.

A good man prefers to suffer rather than overcome injustice with evil.

The absence of vices adds so little to the sum of one's virtues.

All sober inquirers after truth, ancient and modern, pagan and Christian, have declared that the happiness of man, as well as his dignity, consists in virtue.

It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and honorably and justly, and it is impossible to live wisely and honorably and justly without living pleasantly. Whenever any one of these is lacking, when, for instance, the man is not able to live wisely, though he lives honorably and justly, it is impossible for him to live a pleasant life.

Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.

If you are following the dharma no matter what you do it is moral.

Live the principles and the values. Almost nobody in America is living them. Learn the truth. Live the life of our founders. Be a decent, righteous, forthright honest man or woman.