This document contains several quotes and passages from the Bible about virtues such as love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, faithfulness, gentleness, goodness, and self-control. Some key themes that emerge are living with love, finding joy and strength in God, being patient and kind towards others, doing good works, and walking in truth and righteousness.

1. "And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him" 1 John 4:16

2. Do not think that love , in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love . Mother Teresa

3. The joy of the Lord is your strength Nehemiah 8:10

4. "The most valuable thing the Psalms do for me is to express the same delight [joy] in God which made David dance." C.S. Lewis Author & Theologian

5. May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit Romans 15:13

6. If we have not peace in our minds, our outward comfort will do no more for us than a golden slipper on a gouty foot. John Bunyan Author of Pilgrims Progress

7. ” Be completely humble and gentle; be patient , bearing with one another in love." Ephesians 4 : 2

8. We are ”strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffering With joyfulness” Colossians 1 : 1 1

9. A lot of the road to heaven has to be taken at thirty miles per hour. Evelyn Underhill Author & Christian Mystic

10. We should live "in purity, understanding, patience and kindness ; in the Holy Spirit and in sincere love; in truthful speech and in the power of God; with weapons of righteousness in the right hand and in the left” 2 Corinthians 6:6-7

11. "I shall pass through this world but once. Any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer it or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again." Henry Drummond Evangelist

12. "Wherefore also we pray always for you, that our God would count you worthy of this calling, and fulfill all the good pleasure of his goodness, and the work of faith with power" 2 Thessalonians 1:11

13. "Christian, remember the goodness of God in the frost of adversity.“ Charles Spurgeon Author & Theologian Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can and as long as you can. John Wesley Author & Theologian

14. “ It gave me great joy to have some brothers come and tell about your faithfulness to the truth and how you continue to walk in the truth. I have no greater joy than to hear that my children are walking in the truth.” 3 John 1:3-4

15. God wants us to be dependable even when it costs us. This is what distinguishes godly faithfulness from the ordinary dependability of secular society. Jerry Bridges, Author The Practice of Godliness

16. Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice! Let your gentleness be evident to all. The Lord is near. Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. Phil 4:4-6

17. The meek [ gentle ] man is not a human mouse afflicted with a sense of his own inferiority. Rather he may be in his moral life as bold as a lion and as strong as Samson; but he has stopped being fooled about himself. He has accepted God’s estimate of his own life. He knows he is as weak and helpless as God declared him to be, but paradoxically, he knows at the same time that he is in the sight of God of more importance than angels. In himself, nothing; in God, everything. That is his motto. A.W. Tozer

18. You are all sons of the light and sons of the day. We do not belong to the night or to the darkness. So then, let us not be like others, who are asleep, but let us be alert and self-controlled . For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk, get drunk at night. 1 Thess 5:5-7

19. When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost. Billy Graham Evangelist