Many people do not fully understand the meaning of virtue. One commonly understood meaning is to be chaste or morally clean, but virtue
in its fuller sense encompasses all traits of righteousness that help
us form our character. An old sampler found in a museum in Newfoundland,
stitched in 1813, reads: “Virtue is the chiefest beauty of the mind,
the noblest ornament of humankind. Virtue is our safeguard and our
guiding star that stirs up reason when our senses err.”. . .
These
are challenging times. I believe your spirits may have been reserved
for these latter days; that you, like Esther, have come to earth “for
such a time as this.” It may be that your most significant, everlasting
achievements will be your righteous influence on others, that your
divine feminine inner beauty and intuition will find expression in your
quiet strength, gentleness, dignity, charm, graciousness, creativity,
sensitivity, radiance, and spirituality. Enhance these sublime feminine
gifts. They will make you appealing and even irresistible as you serve
others as the handmaidens of God.
I
testify that if you practice these virtues, you will be able to “press
forward with a steadfastness in Christ, having a perfect brightness of
hope, and a love of God and of all men.”
"The Virtues of Righteous Daughters of God" James E. Faust General Young Women Meeting April 2003
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