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According to Aquinas, effort may not be the best measure of our virtue.

According to Aquinas, effort may not be the best measure of our virtue.
– Jen Pollock Michel

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  3. Desire, if it is to be trusted, is to be inspired by a holy vocabulary. – Jen Pollock Michel
  4. Sometimes God seems to be killing us when He is actually saving us. – Jen Pollock Michel
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  8. The Bible provocatively evokes desire. – Jen Pollock Michel
  9. Blessing and obedience do comfortably and mysteriously coexist. – Jen Pollock Michel
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  12. Our small group is committed to getting the biblical text under our skin. – Jen Pollock Michel
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  16. To copy a virtue in another is more copying than it is virtue. Try to learn what that virtue is based upon. – Idries Shah
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  18. Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers. – HenriFrdric Amiel
  19. Sapiens don’t behave according to a cold mathematical logic, but rather according to a warm social logic. We are ruled by emotions. – Yuval Noah Harari
  20. Those who know the true use of money, and regulate the measure of wealth according to their needs, live contented with few things. – Baruch Spinoza
  21. According to your strategy plan and how it looks is commensurate with how much effort you will apply to achieving success. – Stephen Richards
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  23. Unlike the puerile loyalty to a conviction, loyalty to a friend is a virtue – perhaps the only virtue, the last remaining one. – Milan Kundera
  24. Beauty is the virtue of the body as virtue is the beauty of the soul – Ralph Waldo Emerson
  25. There is virtue in work and there is virtue in rest. Use both and overlook neither. – Alan Cohen
  26. Power does not justify sin. Power is not virtue. Virtue is that which lasts inspite of power – Sweety Shinde
  27. Virtue of prayer, virtue of patience. – Lailah Gifty Akita
  28. Men are not great by the virtue of their wealth, but by the wealth of their virtue. – Sunday Adelaja
  29. In the common degree of the moral, there is no virtue. Virtue is excellence. – Adam Smith
  30. Blessedness is not the reward of virtue, but virtue itself. – Baruch Spinoza
  31. virtue does not spring from riches, but riches and all other human blessings, both private and public, from virtue. – Plato
  32. In order to know virtue, we must acquaint ourselves with vice. Only then can we know the true measure of a man. – Marquis de Sade
  33. I used to measure the skies, now I measure the shadows of Earth.Although my mind was sky-bound, the shadow of my body lies – Johannes Kepler
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  38. To measure the man, measure his heart. – Malcolm Forbes
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