"We can teach no virtues we do not practice," occurred to me this afternoon; for without learning by experience how a virtue is acquired, how can we teach any one to acquire it? I thought of this in connection with the experience of undutiful children. By the working of this natural cause, they will not make their own children dutiful. Read in Luke of the angel which appeared to Christ in Gethsemane, strengthening Him. We all see this angel when we say truly, "Thy will, not mine, be done."


22 August 1875. - The Walk With God (1919)

Julia Ward Howe Quotes

We can teach no virtues we do not practice, occurred to me this afternoon; for without learning by experience how a virtue is acquired, how can we...

We can teach no virtues we do not practice, occurred to me this afternoon; for without learning by experience how a virtue is acquired, how can we...

We can teach no virtues we do not practice, occurred to me this afternoon; for without learning by experience how a virtue is acquired, how can we...

We can teach no virtues we do not practice, occurred to me this afternoon; for without learning by experience how a virtue is acquired, how can we...