Virtue

Websters 1828 dictionary:

 Strength; Bravery valor. Moral goodness; the practice of moral duties and the abstaining from vice, or a conformity of life and conversation to the moral law. In this sense, virtue may be, and in many instances must be, distinguished from religion.

LDS.ORG:

Virtue is a prerequisite to entering the Lord’s holy temples and to receiving the Spirit’s guidance. Virtue “is a pattern of thought and behavior based on high moral standards.”  It encompasses chastity and moral purity. Virtue begins in the heart and in the mind. It is nurtured in the home. It is the accumulation of thousands of small decisions and actions. Virtue is a word we don’t hear often in today’s society, but the Latin root word virtus means strength. Virtuous women and men possess a quiet dignity and inner strength. They are confident because they are worthy to receive and be guided by the Holy Ghost.

Quotes:

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.

-Buddha

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
-Aristotle

To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.

-Confucius

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

-C. S. Lewis

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.

-George Washington

“You be the one to make a stand for right, even if you stand alone. Have the moral courage to be a light for others to follow. There is no friendship more valuable than your own clear conscience, your own moral cleanliness—and what a glorious feeling it is to know that you stand in your appointed place clean and with the confidence that you are worthy to do so”
-Thomas S Monson

Scriptures:

 2 Peter 1:5 And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; 

D&C 4:6 Remember faith, virtue, knowledge, temperance, patience, brotherly kindness, godliness, charity, humility, diligence. 

Mark 5:30 And Jesus, immediately knowing in himself that virtue had gone out of him, turned him about in the press, and said, Who touched my clothes? 

D&C 38:24 And let every man esteem his brother as himself, and practise virtue and holiness before me. 

D&C 88:40
For intelligence cleaveth unto intelligence; wisdom receiveth wisdom; truth embraceth truth; virtue loveth virtue.

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Generosity
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Love 
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Rectitude 
Righteousness 
Value 
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Charity 
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Faithfulness 
Hope 
Temperance 
Trustworthiness
Uprightness 
Worth 
Worthiness 

My Thoughts:

In young womens the first counselor in the stake came and talked to us about virtue and why they added it to the young womens values. He told us that as young women we need to have virtue-it is good and natural for us to be virtuous. He said that when we are married in the temple our virtue will help our husbands and their priesthood will help us and we will balance out each other. I thought that was really cool. :)

Virtue is moral goodness, kindness, and worthiness. It is an action of divinity and strength. It is standing up in righteous places and standing against evil forces. I want virtue.

Virtue

Websters 1828 Dictionary:

1. Strength; that substance or quality of physical bodies, by which they act and produce effects on other bodies.

2. Bravery valor. 

3. Moral goodness; the practice of moral duties and the abstaining from vice, or a conformity of life and conversation to the moral law. In this sense, virtue may be, and in many instances must be, distinguished from religion.

Church website:

Virtue is a pattern of thought and behavior based on high moral standards. It includes chastity and purity. Virtuous living “at all times and in all things, and in all places” qualifies you for the constant companionship of the Holy Ghost. Determine to partake worthily of the sacrament each week and fill your life with virtuous activities that will bring spiritual power. (Young womens personal progress booklet)

Virtue is a prerequisite to entering the Lord’s holy temples and to receiving the Spirit’s guidance. Virtue “is a pattern of thought and behavior based on high moral standards.”  It encompasses chastity and moral purity. Virtue begins in the heart and in the mind. It is nurtured in the home. It is the accumulation of thousands of small decisions and actions. Virtue is a word we don’t hear often in today’s society, but the Latin root word virtuous means strength. Virtuous women and men possess a quiet dignity and inner strength. They are confident because they are worthy to receive and be guided by the Holy Ghost. President Monson has counseled: “You be the one to make a stand for right, even if you stand alone. Have the moral courage to be a light for others to follow. There is no friendship more valuable than your own clear conscience, your own moral cleanliness—and what a glorious feeling it is to know that you stand in your appointed place clean and with the confidence that you are worthy to do so” (“Examples of Righteousness,” Apr. 2008 general conference).

Quotes:

"Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters" -Benjamin Franklin

"If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him." -Buddha

"Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point." -C. S. Lewis

Scriptures:

2 Peter 1:5 "And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge"

Mark 5:30 "And Jesus, immediately knowing in himself that virtue had gone out of him, turned him about in the press, and said, Who touched my clothes?"

D&C 4:6 "Remember faith, virtue, knowledge, temperance, patience, brotherly kindness, godliness, charity, humility, diligence."

D&C 88:40 "For intelligence cleaveth unto intelligence; wisdom receiveth wisdom; truth embraceth truth; virtue loveth virtue"

Proverbs 31:10 "Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies"

My Thoughts:

Virtue is being morally good. We should have good virtues such as courage, obedience, love, patience, charity, and hard work.

Links:

www.lds.org/youth/video/return-to-virtue

Virtue

Websters 1828 Dictionary: 

4. A particular moral excellence; as the virtue of temperance, of chastity, of charity.Remember all his virtues.

Scriptures: 

D&C 4:6: "Remember faith, virtue, knowledge, temperance, patience, brotherly kindness, godliness, charity, humility, diligence."

D&C 88:40 For intelligence cleaveth unto intelligence; wisdom receiveth wisdom; truth embraceth truth; virtue loveth virtue; light cleaveth unto light; mercy hath compassion on mercy and claimeth her own; justice continueth its course and claimeth its own; judgment goeth before the face of him who sitteth upon the throne and governeth and executeth all things.

D&C 121:45 Let thy bowels also be full of charity towards all men, and to the household of faith, and let virtue garnish thy thoughts unceasingly; then shall thy confidence wax strong in the presence of God; and the doctrine of the priesthood shall distil upon thy soul as the dews from heaven.

Quotes:

 To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.

Buddha

 Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.
Gandhi

 Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
C. S. Lewis

 I truly believe that one virtuous young woman or young man, led by the Spirit, can change the world, but in order to do so, we must return to virtue.

Sister Dalton

My Thoughts:

Chaste, Clean, A daughter of God. As a latter day saint I will have virtue. I will set stander-eds and live by them. I will dress modestly,  Not date until I'm 16, Prepare to be a righteous wife and mother, Not swear or do drugs, live so others can tell who i am; a Mormon. I know it I live it I love it. I am a child of God.

-Dassia