The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.
Christian freedom does not mean being free to do as we like; it means being free to do as we ought.
Heaven gives long life to the just and the intelligent.
Religion and virtue are the only foundations, not of republicanism and of all free government, but of social felicity under all government and in all the combinations of human society.
I just try to live my life every day by doing the right thing.
Abstinence from spirituous liquors is the best safeguard of morals and health.
The happiness of man, as well as his dignity, consists in virtue.
One of the standards on which your happiness is based, now and in your future, is moral purity.
Truth alone triumphs, not untruth. Through truth alone lies the way to Devayana (the way to the gods). Those who think that a little sugar - coating of untruth helps the spread of truth are mistaken and will find in the long run that a single drop of poison poisons the whole mass ... The man who is pure, and who dares, does all things.
I'm trying to lead a good Christian life, so there ain't too much spicy to tell about me.
Happiness is an expression of the soul in considered actions.
It's better to die doing good than to live doing evil.
Man is born for uprightness. If a man lose his uprightness and yet live, his escape from death is mere good fortune.
The safeguards of virtue are hateful to the evil disposed.
Do you know any better way to make saints than to be one yourself?
[I]t is religion and morality alone which can establish the principles upon which freedom can securely stand. The only foundation of a free constitution is pure virtue.
We live in an age that hath more need of good example than precepts.
Chastity is the most unpopular of the Christian virtues.
In this world, either you're virtuous or you enjoy yourself. Not both, lady, not both.
The moral virtues, without religion are but cold, lifeless, and insipid; it is only religion which opens the mind to great conceptions, fills it with the most sublime ideas, and warms the soul with more than sensual pleasures.
You won't burn in hell. But be nice anyway.
Virtue does not consist in the absence of the passions, but in the control of them.
Chastity is a virtue with some, but with many it is almost a vice.
In justice is all virtues found in sum.
The sum of all is, if we would most truly enjoy this gift of Heaven, let us become a virtuous people.
