Prudence, Justice, Courage, and Temperance Quotes

“In twenty years’ time, the practical tasks will still need to be done, but the children will have grown up and the opportunity to interact with them as young children will have gone forever. She therefore concluded that her preference, rather than an exceptionless rule, would be to interact with the child. Such guiding principles are called maxims. Besides being the fruits of prudential thinking, maxims cannot be applied without thought or exceptions.”
― Fr Andrew Pinsent, Prudence, Justice, Courage, and Temperance: The Cardinal Virtues

“God has never told anyone to commit sin”
― Fr Andrew Pinsent, Prudence, Justice, Courage, and Temperance: The Cardinal Virtues

“Prudence is therefore the virtue that steers the moral virtues, like the rudder of a ship.”
― Fr Andrew Pinsent, Prudence, Justice, Courage, and Temperance: The Cardinal Virtues

“The one who is prudent looks where he is going.”
― Fr Andrew Pinsent, Prudence, Justice, Courage, and Temperance: The Cardinal Virtues

“Prudence is the virtue that disposes practical reason to discern our true good in every circumstance and to choose the right means of achieving it;”
― Fr Andrew Pinsent, Prudence, Justice, Courage, and Temperance: The Cardinal Virtues

“And if anyone loves righteousness, her labours are virtues; for she [‘Wisdom’] teaches temperance and prudence, justice and courage; nothing in life is more profitable for mortals than these.”
― Fr Andrew Pinsent, Prudence, Justice, Courage, and Temperance: The Cardinal Virtues

“In other words, the love with which we must first love God, and then our neighbour, is the love with which God loves, and that is God.”
― Fr Andrew Pinsent, Prudence, Justice, Courage, and Temperance: The Cardinal Virtues