List of some key human virtues (nouns & adjectives)

Acceptance Accountable Affable Affection Alert Appreciation Artistry Assertiveness Association Assurance Attentive Attraction Awareness

Beauty Benevolent Blissfulness Bountiful Bravery Brilliant

Care Certitude Chastity Cheerful Cleanliness Commitment Considerate Compassion Consultation Constancy Confirmation Conservation Contentment Cooperation Courtesy Creativity Courage

Determination Dedication Detachment Devotion Dignity Diligence Diversity Divinely-Educated

Eloquence Empathy Enamoured Encouragement Endeavor Enkindled Enlightenment Enthusiasm Excellence Exhilaration

Faith Fair Fervor Fellowship Fidelity Firmness Flexibility Forbearance Forgiveness Friendliness Fruitfulness

Generous Gentleness Gladness Goodness Grace Gracious Gratitude Guidance

Happiness Harmony Heedful Helpful Heavenly Holiness Honesty Honorable Hopeful Hospitality Humble Humanity Humility Humorous

Idealistic Illumined Independence Initiative Insightful Inspired Integrity Intuitive

Joyfulness Justice

Kindness Knowledge

Lowliness Loyalty Luminous

Magnanimous Meditation Majestic Maturity Meekness Melodious Merciful Mettle Moderation Modesty Morality Munificent

Neatness Nobility

Obedience Openness Optimistic Orderly Organized Outspoken

Patience Peaceful Perfection Perseverance Perceptive Full-of-Praise Praiseworthy Prayerful Purposeful Purity

Radiance Rectitude Refinement Reverence Respect Responsiveness Resolve Reflection Reliable Resourceful Responsive Righteousness

Sacrifice Saintly Sanctity Scientific Self-knowledge Selfless Serene Severance Sincere Speech Strength Steadfast Summoner-to-love Spiritual Sociable Self-discipline Service Sympathy

Tactful Tolerance Tenderhearted Thankful Thoughtful Tidy Trustworthy Truthful

Understanding Unity Uprightness

Vibrant Vigilant Vivacious Vision Volition

Warmth Wisdom Work

Youthful

Zealous

"Consider the virtues of the human world and realize that the oneness of humanity is the primary foundation of them all. ('Abdu'l-Baha, Baha'i World Faith, p. 245)"

"Therefore unity is the essential truth of religion and when so understood embraces all the virtues of the human world. ('Abdu'l-Baha, Baha'i World Faith, p. 245)"

"The virtues of the seed are revealed in the tree; it puts forth branches, leaves, blossoms, and produces fruits. All these virtues were hidden and potential in the seed. Through the blessing and bounty of cultivation these virtues became apparent. ('Abdu'l-Baha, Baha'i World Faith, p. 267)"

"For, as the body of man depends for life upon the rays of the sun, so cannot the celestial virtues grow in the soul without the radiance of the Sun of Truth. ('Abdu'l-Baha, Paris Talks, p. 32)"

"We must strive with energies of heart, soul and mind to develop and manifest the perfections and virtues latent within the realities of the phenomenal world, for the human reality may be compared to a seed. If we sow the seed, a mighty tree appears from it. ('Abdu'l-Baha, Baha'i World Faith, p. 267)"

"Similarly the merciful God our creator has deposited within human realities certain virtues latent and potential. Through education and culture, these virtues deposited by the loving God will become apparent in the human reality even as the unfoldment of the tree from within the germinating seed. ('Abdu'l-Baha, Baha'i World Faith, p. 267)"

"The spiritual love of God maketh man pure and holy and clotheth him with the garment of virtue and purity. And when man attacheth his heart wholly to God and becometh related to the Blessed Perfection, the divine bounty will dawn. This love is not physical, nay, rather, it is absolutely spiritual. ('Abdu'l-Baha, Baha'i World Faith, p. 365)"

"By the fire of the Love of God the veil is burnt which separates us from the Heavenly Realities, and with clear vision we are enabled to struggle onward and upward, ever progressing in the paths of virtue and holiness, and becoming the means of light to the world. ('Abdu'l-Baha, Paris Talks, p. 82)"

"God has conferred upon and added to man a distinctive power, the faculty of intellectual investigation into the secrets of creation, the acquisition of higher knowledge, the greatest virtue of which is scientific enlightenment.... This endowment is the most praiseworthy power of man, for through its employment and exercise, the betterment of the human race is accomplished, the development of the virtues of mankind is made possible and the spirit and mysteries of God become manifest. ('Abdu'l-Baha, Baha'i World Faith, p. 244)"

"Briefly; the Blessed Perfection bore all these ordeals and calamities in order that our hearts might become enkindled and radiant, our spirits be glorified, our faults become virtues, our ignorance transformed into knowledge; in order that we might attain the real fruits of humanity and acquire heavenly graces; although pilgrims upon earth we should travel the road of the heavenly kingdom; although needy and poor we might receive the treasures of life eternal. ('Abdu'l-Baha, Baha'i World Faith, p. 224)"

"The Oppressed One is this day a prisoner; His allies are the hosts of good deeds and virtues; not ranks, and hosts, and guns, and cannons ('Abdu'l-Baha, A Traveller's Narrative, p. 45)"

"As regards religious zeal and true piety, their touchstone and proof are firmness and steadfastness in noble qualities, virtues, and perfections, which are the greatest blessings of the human race; but not interference with the belief of this one or that one, demolition of edifices, and cutting off of the human race. ('Abdu'l-Baha, A Traveller's Narrative, p. 90)",

"If he dwells upon the thought of non-existence he will become utterly incompetent; with weakened will-power his ambition for progress will be lessened and the acquisition of human virtues will cease. ('Abdu'l-Baha, Baha'i World Faith, p. 266)"

"He has consciousness, volition, memory, intelligent power, divine attributes and virtues of which nature is completely deprived, bereft and minus; therefore man is higher and nobler by reason of the ideal and heavenly force latent and manifest in him. ('Abdu'l-Baha, Baha'i World Faith,p. 237)"

With God Virtues

Adoration-of-God

Attachment-to-God

Believe-in-God...

Centered-in-God...

Confidence-in-God...

Firm-in-God's-Covenant...

Inimate-Communion-with-God

Love-of-God...

Recognition-of-God...

Remembrance-of-God...

Reliance-on-God...

Renunciation-of-all-save-God...

Servitude-to-God...

Supplication-to-God...

Submission-to-God...

Trust-in-God...

Turning-with-whole-Affection-to-God

Worship-of-God...

Yearning-for-God...

...

Active Virtues

Assisting Bridging Caring Comforting Consoling Discovering Encouraging Exploring Learning Loving Nurturing Parenting Peacemaking Pioneering Researching Seeking Shining Supporting Teaching Trusting

"Verily I ask God to augment for thee, every day, the light of guidance and His gift of virtue, comfort and ease. ('Abdu'l-Baha, Baha'i World Faith, p. 359)"

"Strive diligently to acquire virtues befitting your degree and station. ('Abdu'l-Baha, Baha'i World Faith, p. 266)"

"...the realization of existence and continuity has upraised man to sublimity of ideals, established the foundations of human progress and stimulated the development of heavenly virtues; therefore it behoves man to abandon thoughts of non-existence and death which are absolutely imaginary and see himself ever living, everlasting in the divine purpose of his creation. ('Abdu'l-Baha, Baha'i World Faith, p. 265)"

"In ignoring these virtues he descends to the material plane, considers matter the ruler of existence and denies that which lies beyond. ('Abdu'l-Baha, Baha'i World Faith, p. 237)"

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