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Hope is one of the Theological virtues. This means that a continual looking forward to the eternal world is not (as some modern people think) a form of escapism or wishful thinking, but one of the things a Christian is meant to do. It does not mean that we are to leave the present world as it is. If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were just those who thought most of the next. ~ C.S. Lewis
Theological Virtues quotes by C.S. Lewis
Faith, hope and charity go together. Hope is practised through the virtue of patience, which continues to do good even in the face of apparent failure, and through the virtue of humility, which accepts God's mystery and trusts him even at times of darkness. Faith tells us that God has given his Son for our sakes and gives us the victorious certainty that it is really true: God is love! It thus transforms our impatience and our doubts into the sure hope that God holds the world in his hands and that, as the dramatic imagery of the end of the Book of Revelation points out, in spite of all darkness he ultimately triumphs in glory. Faith, which sees the love of God revealed in the pierced heart of Jesus on the Cross, gives rise to love. Love is the light - and in the end, the only light - that can always illuminate a world grown dim and give us the courage needed to keep living and working. Love is possible, and we are able to practise it because we are created in the image of God. To experience love and in this way to cause the light of God to enter into the world - this is the invitation I would like to extend with the present Encyclical. ~ Benedict XVI
Theological Virtues quotes by Benedict XVI
Like faith and hope, trust cannot be self-generated. I cannot simply will myself to trust. What outrageous irony: the one thing that I am responsible for throughout my life I cannot generate. The one thing I need to do I cannot do. But such is the meaning of radical dependence. It consists in theological virtues, in divinely ordained gifts. Why reproach myself for my lack of trust? Why waste time beating myself up for something I cannot affect? What does lie within my power is paying attention to the faithfulness of Jesus. That's what I am asked to do: pay attention to Jesus throughout my journey, remembering his kindnesses (Ps. 103:2). ~ Brennan Manning
Theological Virtues quotes by Brennan Manning
For such is man: a Theological Dogma might be refuted to him a thousand times - provided however, that he had need of it, he would again and again accept it as true. Belief is always most desired, most pressingly needed where there is a lack of will. Fanaticism is the sole "volitional strength" to which the weak and irresolute can be excited, as a sort of hypnotising of the entire sensory-intellectual system. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Theological Virtues quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche
The cardinal virtues are self-control, moderation,
kindness, generosity, justice, and truthfulness tempered by discretion ~ Miriam Lichtheim
Theological Virtues quotes by Miriam Lichtheim
To teach God's glory as a theological idea, not as active and available experience, is to shortchange the very truth of His presence. To fully know a person, closeness is essential. There is only so much you can receive through secondhand information. The same is true for God. Sadly, many are teaching secondhand information about a person we are called to know and experience. For example, a lot of people preach a theology of the baptism of the Holy Spirit, but unless you've experienced the Spirit's baptism for yourself, you cannot fully preach it. You have to taste and see that the Lord is good! (See Psalm 34:8.) I ~ Michael Brown
Theological Virtues quotes by Michael Brown
When you rely on incentives, you undermine virtues. Then when you discover that you actually need people who want to do the right thing, those people don't exist because you've crushed anyone's desire to do the right thing with all these incentives. ~ Barry Schwartz
Theological Virtues quotes by Barry Schwartz
Be so strong enough in virtues like hard work rather than waiting for miracle. ~ Sunday Adelaja
Theological Virtues quotes by Sunday Adelaja
Even if I could, I would not exahnge their virtues for my own. And that is why they are intent on learning from me. ~ Confucius
Theological Virtues quotes by Confucius
Our normal sense of the person as a lonely island of consciousness, is a dramatic illusion based on theological imagery. ~ Alan Watts
Theological Virtues quotes by Alan Watts
Most areas of intellectual life have discovered the virtues of speculation, and have embraced them wildly. In academia, speculation is usually dignified as theory. ~ Michael Crichton
Theological Virtues quotes by Michael Crichton
Competition is often conflated with capitalism, but they are not at all the same. Capitalism involves private ownership of the means of production and distribution, but the word implies nothing about the way in which privately owned firms do business. Capitalism is perfectly compatible with a society in which a powerful state doles out favors to private monopolies, protects some enterprises from others, or even sets the prices privately owned firms may charge for their products. Indeed, while capitalists tend to praise the virtues of competition, many of them would just as soon avoid it. ~ Marc Levinson
Theological Virtues quotes by Marc Levinson
Such is the joy of concluding a day performing duties earnestly leaving ends upon His feet! I have nothing to gain here except virtues, nothing to lose except love, O Lord, I am here to breathe the beauty of life! ~ Preeth Nambiar
Theological Virtues quotes by Preeth Nambiar
Mormons are an extraordinarily educated and professional population. They have all these virtues: They work hard, don't skip school, have no scandals. Consequently, you find them in a lot of consequential places. ~ Rodney Stark
Theological Virtues quotes by Rodney Stark
Leaders who have integrity possess one of the most respected virtues in all of life. ~ David Cottrell
Theological Virtues quotes by David Cottrell
The virtues of science are skepticism and independence of thought. ~ Walter Gilbert
Theological Virtues quotes by Walter Gilbert
Much good art got made while money ruled; I like a lot of it, and hardship and poverty aren't virtues. The good news is that, since almost no one will be selling art, artists - especially emerging ones - won't have to think about turning out a consistent style or creating a brand. They'll be able to experiment as much as they want. ~ Jerry Saltz
Theological Virtues quotes by Jerry Saltz
Indolence, languid as it is, often masters both passions and virtues. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Theological Virtues quotes by Francois De La Rochefoucauld
If the kingdom of God is within us and that is a kingdom of justice, of peace, and of joy then whoever remains with these virtues is certainly in the kingdom of God. By contrast, all who deal in unrighteousness, in discord, and in death-bearing gloom have taken their stand in the kingdom of the devil, in hell and in lifelessness. It is by these tokens that the kingdom of God or of the devil is recognized. ~ John Cassian
Theological Virtues quotes by John Cassian
I had a longing for ritual, something I could cling to, a routine to make me feel well and contented. I hoped that reading Bible commentaries and theological critiques would nudge me closer to some kind of absolute that I could hold up as a torch to light my way. ~ Jack Dee
Theological Virtues quotes by Jack Dee
I have a tendency, after a play of mine is produced, to look back on it disparagingly, seeing only its faults; before production, I see only its virtues. ~ William Inge
Theological Virtues quotes by William Inge
Give yourself to reading.' ... You need to read. Renounce as much as you will all light literature, but study as much as possible sound theological works,
especially the Puritanic writers, and expositions of the Bible. ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Theological Virtues quotes by Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Gratitude is one of the greatest Christian virtues; ingratitude, one of the most vicious sins. ~ Billy Graham
Theological Virtues quotes by Billy Graham
The virtues have gone mad because they have been isolated from each other and are wandering alone. Thus some scientists care for truth; and their truth is pitiless. ~ G.K. Chesterton
Theological Virtues quotes by G.K. Chesterton
Reenvisioned, anger can be the most feminine of virtues: compassionate, fierce, wise, and powerful. The women I admire most... have all found ways to transform their anger into meaningful change. In them, anger has moved from deliberation to liberation. ~ Soraya Chemaly
Theological Virtues quotes by Soraya Chemaly
Want is a bitter and a hateful good,
Because its virtues are not understood;
Yet many things, impossible to thought,
Have been by need to full perfection brought.
The daring of the soul proceeds from thence,
Sharpness of wit, and active diligence;
Prudence at once, and fortitude it gives;
And, if in patience taken, mends our lives. ~ John Dryden
Theological Virtues quotes by John Dryden
Charity is not one of the virtues practiced on the stock market. The heart of a bank is but one of many viscera. ~ Honore De Balzac
Theological Virtues quotes by Honore De Balzac
The aim of education is to guide young persons in the process
through which they shape themselves as human persons-armed with knowledge, strength of judgment, and moral virtues-while at the same time conveying to them the spiritual heritage of the nation and the civilization in which they are involved. ~ Jacques Maritain
Theological Virtues quotes by Jacques Maritain
Once the soul has left the body it had to walk across a bridge as narrow as a knife edge, with paradise on the right and, on the left, a series of circles that lead down into the darkness inside the earth. Before crossing the bridge, each person had to place all his virtues in his right hand and all his sins in his left, and the imbalance between the two meant that the person always fell towards the side to which his actions on Earth had inclined him. ~ Paulo Coelho
Theological Virtues quotes by Paulo Coelho
Confronting the US made him [Hugo Chavez] a target for demonization. Partisan and/or lazy journalism exaggerated his faults, ignored his virtues, and downplayed the influence of strident and on occasion anti-democratic opponents. The flip side is his anti-imperialist posturing so dazzled his cheerleaders they overlooked his flaws, flaws which worsened over time, and they created their own caricature. ~ Rory Carroll
Theological Virtues quotes by Rory Carroll
One of the greatest virtues of gardening is this perpetual renewal of youth and spring, of promise of flower and fruit that can always be read in the open book of the garden, by those with an eye to see, and a mind to understand. ~ Edward Augustus Bowles
Theological Virtues quotes by Edward Augustus Bowles
My main source for faith-based stuff is mostly the Bible, and a childhood with a much, much higher-than-median exposure to theological thought. ~ Jim Butcher
Theological Virtues quotes by Jim Butcher
As long as matters are really hopeful," wrote Chesterton, "hope is mere flattery or platitude. It is only when everything is hopeless that hope begins to be a strength at all. Like all the Christian virtues, it is as unreasonable as it is indispensable. ~ Eugene H. Peterson
Theological Virtues quotes by Eugene H. Peterson
Susan was a tough-minded romantic. She wanted to fall in love with a book. She always had reasons for her devotions, as an astute reader would, but she was, to her credit, probably the most emotional one among us. Susan could fall in love with a book in more or less the way one falls in love with a person. Yes, you can provide, if asked, a list of your loved one's lovable qualities: he's kind and funny and smart and generous and he knows the names of trees.
But he's also more than amalgamation of qualities. You love him, the entirety of him, which can't be wholly explained by even the most exhaustive explication of his virtues. And you love him no less for his failings. O.K., he's bad with money, he can be moody sometimes, and he snores. His marvels so outshine the little complaints as to render them ridiculous. ~ Michael Cunningham
Theological Virtues quotes by Michael Cunningham
Men love their wives not because of their virtues, but in spite of them. ~ Margaret Deland
Theological Virtues quotes by Margaret Deland
The virtues prized in free countries are honesty, self-discipline, a sense of responsibility to one's family, a sense of loyalty to one's employer and staff, and a pride in the quality of one's work. And these virtues only flourish in a climate of freedom. ~ Margaret Thatcher
Theological Virtues quotes by Margaret Thatcher
Speaking figuratively, the study of theology often produces overgrown youths whose internal organs have not correspondingly developed. This is a characteristic of adolescence. There is actually something like theological puberty. ~ Helmut Thielicke
Theological Virtues quotes by Helmut Thielicke
OPPORTUNITY
In a day, there arrive many occasions when you can see vice in others. But there are very few occasions when you can see virtue in others. Don't wait for such occasions; create occasions to see virtues in others. ~ Sirshree
Theological Virtues quotes by Sirshree
The love of esteem is the life and soul of society; it unites us to one another : I want your approbation, you stand in need of mine. By forsaking the converse of men, we forsake the virtues necessary for society; for when one is alone, one is apt to grow negligent; the world forces you to have a guard over yourself. ~ Anne-Therese De Marguenat De Courcelles
Theological Virtues quotes by Anne-Therese De Marguenat De Courcelles
I've always been interested in our flaws as human beings, just as much as the virtues. ~ Nicole Kidman
Theological Virtues quotes by Nicole Kidman
And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity. ~ Colossians 3 14
Theological Virtues quotes by Colossians 3 14
You can't rush art." I crumpled another lost attempt and tossed it behind me. "Besides, patience is a virtue."

"It's a virtue until it's a waste of time," he pointed out.

The cello unleashed a few notes that sounded strangely bright for such an instrument, and Hal nodded in its direction. "See; even a musical instrument agrees with me. ~ Mirriam Neal
Theological Virtues quotes by Mirriam Neal
When Nietzsche praises egoism it is always in an aggressive or polemical way, against the virtues, against the virtue of disinterestedness (Z III "Of the three evil things"). But in fact egoism is a bad interpretation of the will, just as atomism is a bad interpretation of force. In order for there to be egoism it is necessary for there to be an ego. ~ Gilles Deleuze
Theological Virtues quotes by Gilles Deleuze
Humor is the touchstone of the truly mythological as distinct from the more literal-minded and sentimental theological mood. ~ Joseph Campbell
Theological Virtues quotes by Joseph Campbell
What men and women need is encouragement. Their natural resisting powers should be strengthened, not weakened ... Instead of always harping on a man's faults, tell him of his virtues. Try to pull him out of his rut ... Hold up to him his better self, his real self that can dare and do and win out! ... People radiate what is in their minds and in their hearts. ~ Eleanor Porter
Theological Virtues quotes by Eleanor Porter
They passed a succession of granite monuments to the conquering magicians of the late Victorian age and the fallen heroes of the Great War, then a few monolithic sculptures representing Ideal Virtues (Patriotism, Respect for Authority, the Dutiful Wife). ~ Jonathan Stroud
Theological Virtues quotes by Jonathan Stroud
[It] is nevertheless better than the theological concept, of deriving morality from a divine, all-perfect will, not merely because we do not intuit this perfection, but can derive it solely from our concepts, of which morality is the foremost one, but because if we do not do this (which, if we did, would be a crude circle in explanation), the concept of his will that is left over to us, the attributes of the desire for glory and domination, bound up with frightful representations of power and vengeance, would have to make a foundation for a system of morals that is directly opposed to morality. ~ Immanuel Kant
Theological Virtues quotes by Immanuel Kant
Poverty is dishonorable, not in itself, but when it is a proof of laziness, intemperance, luxury, and carelessness; whereas in a person that is temperate, industrious, just and valiant, and who uses all his virtues for the public good, it shows a great and lofty mind. ~ Plutarch
Theological Virtues quotes by Plutarch
And she had the most appealing of feminine virtues, especially in a queen. She's easily led. ~ Megan Whalen Turner
Theological Virtues quotes by Megan Whalen Turner
If theological ideas prove to have a value for concrete life, they will be true, for pragmatism, in the sense of being good for so much. How much more they are true, will depend entirely on their relations to the other truths that also have to be acknowledged. ~ William James
Theological Virtues quotes by William James
For the traveler we see leaning on his neighbor is an honest and well-meaning man and full of melancholy, like those Chekhov characters so laden with virtues that they never know success in life. ~ Orhan Pamuk
Theological Virtues quotes by Orhan Pamuk
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