Virtue & Righteousness

11 passages on virtue & righteousness, drawn from many traditions and offered with their sources intact. Take the one that meets you where you are.

  • Good thoughts, good words, good deeds.

    Zoroaster · Avesta · Zoroastrian Teachings

  • But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control.

    Paul · Galatians 5:22-23 · The Bible

  • The highest good is like water. Water gives life to the ten thousand things and does not strive.

    Lao Tzu · Tao Te Ching

  • But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control.

    Paul · Galatians 5:22-23 · The Bible

  • The highest good is like water. Water gives life to the ten thousand things and does not strive.

    Lao Tzu · Tao Te Ching

  • But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control.

    Paul · Galatians 5:22-23 · The Bible

  • The highest good is like water. Water gives life to the ten thousand things and does not strive.

    Lao Tzu · Tao Te Ching

  • But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control.

    Paul · Galatians 5:22-23 · The Bible

  • Good thoughts, good words, and good deeds—this is the threefold path of righteousness.

    Zoroaster · Avesta · Zoroastrian Teachings

  • Do that which is good, and withdraw from that which is not good.

    Zoroaster · Avesta · Zoroastrian Teachings

  • Righteousness is the best good. It is happiness. Happiness is for him who is righteous for the sake of the best righteousness.

    Zoroaster · Avesta · Zoroastrian Teachings

Traditions represented here