When God calls a man to be upright and pure and generous, he also calls him to be intelligent and skillful, and strong and brave.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
A man has generally the good or ill qualities, which he attributes to mankind.
Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.
God wants man to fulfill his commands as a human being and with the quality peculiar to human beings.
God seeth different abilities and frailties of men, which may move His goodness to be merciful to their different improvements in virtue.
The attributes of God tell us what He is and who He is.
Nature seems at each man's birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues and vices, and to have determined how good or how wicked that man shall be capable of being.
The divine is perhaps that quality in man which permits him to endure the lack of God.
Above all, remember that God looks for solid virtues in us, such as patience, humility, obedience, abnegation of your own will - that is, the good will to serve Him and our neighbor in Him. His providence allows us other devotions only insofar as He sees that they are useful to us.
An honest man's the noblest work of God.
Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation.