Spiritual Virtue Quotes

Faith is the virtue by which, clinging-to the faithfulness of God, we lean upon him, so that we may obtain what he gives to us.

Even if it were proven that God didn't exist, Religion would still be Saintly and Divine.

Honor is the presence of God in man.

Humility is the marriage bond of Heaven. Pride is the frigidity of Hell.

An humble soul looks upon Christ's righteousness as his only crown.

God's goodness is the root of all goodness; and our goodness, if we have any, springs out of His goodness.

The only reason why anything virtuous or lively survives in us is this, 'the LORD is there'" (Ez. 35:10)

Faith is loved and honored by God more than any other single thing.

We don't honor just to get a reward; we honor because it is the heart of God, and it is our delight.

The fear of God reigning in the heart is the beauty of the soul.

To be a righteous woman during the winding up scenes on this earth, before the second coming of our Savior, is an especially noble calling... She has been placed here to help to enrich, to protect, and to guard the home--which is society's basic and most noble institution.

Heaven is author of the virtue that is in me

For me, the Immaculate Conception is the feast of 'passive action,' the action that functions simply by the transmission through us of divine energy. Purity, in spite of outward appearances, is essentially an active virtue, because it concentrates God in us and on those who are subject to our influence.

I have always believed in seeking happiness in the happiness of others and the virtue of seeking God's pleasure in helping His people.

Human excellence means nothing Unless it works with the consent of God.

Amongst other our secular businesses and cures, our principal intent and fervent desire is to see virtue and cleanness of living to be advanced, increased, and multiplied, and vices and all other things repugnant to virtue, provoking the high indignation and fearful displeasure of God, to be repressed and annulled.

God is decisively drawn to the humble.

The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.

But the mind is here accepted not for the soul, but for that which is the more excellent in the soul.

Our immortal souls, while righteous, are by God himself beautified with the title of his own image and similitude.