Francis Chan Quotes

To know what virtue is is not enough; we must endeavor to possess and to practice it, or in some other manner actually ourselves to become good.

Moral excellence is the bright consummate flower of all progress.

Virtue is the truest nobility.

The happiness of man, as well as his dignity, consists in virtue.

These virtues are formed in man by his doing the actions ... The good of man is a working of the soul in the way of excellence in a complete life.

The Good of man is the active exercise of his soul's faculties in conformity with excellence or virtue, or if there be several human excellences or virtues, in conformity with the best and most perfect among them.

There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

It is well to think well; it is divine to act well.

For he that is a good man, is three quarters of his way towards the being a good Christian, wheresoever he lives, or whatsoever he is called.

Excellence or virtue in a man will be the disposition which renders him a good man and also which will cause him to perform his function well.

Never stop working on your statue until the divine glory of virtue shines out on you, until you see self-mastery enthroned upon its holy seat.

Worthy of honor is he who does no injustice, and more than twofold honor, if he not only does no injustice himself, but hinders others from doing any.

Virtue does not consist in the absence of the passions, but in the control of them.

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

Peace is the evening star of the soul, as virtue is its sun, and the two are never far apart.

The happy life is regarded as a life in conformity with virtue. It is a life which involves effort and is not spent in amusement.

We assume therefore that moral virtue is the quality of acting in the best way in relation to pleasures and pains, and that vice is the opposite.

If virtue precede us every step will be safe.

The noble soul occupies itself with wisdom and friendship.

Do not be content to live a mediocre Christian life: walk with determination along the path of holiness.

Be thou good thyself, and let people speak evil of thee; it is better than to be wicked, and that they should consider thee as good.

Is virtue a thing remote? I wish to be virtuous, and lo! Virtue is at hand.

Virtue, though she gets her beginning from nature, yet receives her finishing touches from learning.

Let me resolve to be virtuous, that I may be happy, that I may please Him, who is delighted to see me happy. Amen.