Marcus Eremita Quotes About Virtue

• Do not attempt to benefit by rebukes one who boasts of his virtues, for he loves to display himself can not be a lover of truth.

  Marco Eremita

  Inspirador, Cristiano, Religioso

• Whoever with fear of God corrects and directs a sinner gains virtue for himself, that of opposition to sin. But whoever insults a sinner with rancor and without good will falls, according to a spiritual law, into the same passion with the sinner.

  Marco Eremita

  Inspirador, Cristiano, Espiritual

• When the mind forgets the purpose of Christian life, then even the clear fulfillment of virtue becomes profitless.

  Marco Eremita

  Inspirador, Cristiano, Religioso

• If you want the Lord to hide your sins, then don't talk to people about what kind of virtues you have. For as we relate to our virtues, so God relates to our sins.

  Marco Eremita

  Inspirador, Cristiano, Religioso

• Guard your mind from self-praise and flee a high opinion of yourself, so that God does not allow you to fall into the opposite passion to the virtue for which you boast, for man does not accomplish virtue alone, but with the help of God who sees all.

  Marco Eremita

  Inspirador, Cristiano, Religioso

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