Virtue

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Lord, you have been our refuge
in all generations.
Psalm 90:1
 


Let us stand fast in what is right
and prepare our souls for trial.
Let us wait upon God’s strengthening aid.

 
St. Boniface, 8th century

 
 
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Do not weary yourself
with getting rich.
Proverbs 23:4
 


Don't be anxious about what you have
but about what you are.

 
St Gregory the Great, 4th century

 
 
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Speaking the truth in love,
we are to grow up in every way into him
who is the head, into Christ.
Ephesians 4:15
 


Truth suffers, but never dies.

 
St. Teresa of Avila, 16th century

 
 
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Father, sanctify them in the truth.
Jesus; John 17:17
 


Those who are led by the truth have true ideas,
and so, many ignorant people are wiser than the learned.

 
St. John Vianney, 19th century

 
 
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What does the Lord require of you
but to act justly.
Micah 6:8
 


The different applications of justice are:
reverential fear of God, respect for religion,
the sense of duty to one's immediate family,
the love of what is fair, hatred for what is evil,
a sense of gratitude.

 
St. Anthony of Padua, 13th century

 
 
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Lead a life worthy of the calling
to which you have been called,
with all lowliness and meekness.
Ephesians 4:1
 


Christ lived an ordinary life having no high position,
to recall others from an inordinate greed for honors.

 
St. Thomas Aquinas, 13th century

 
 
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What have you
that you did not receive?
1 Corinthians 4:7
 


Whatever wisdom,
whatever virtue you believe yourselves to possess,
attribute it all to Christ,
who is the Wisdom and the Knowledge of God.

 
St. Bernard of Clairvaux, 12th century

 
 
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Have a tender heart and a humble mind.
1 Peter 3:8
 


It is to the humble that Christ belongs.

 
St. Clement of Rome, 1st century

 

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