Virtues
Virtue : Firm disposition to do Good or to avoid what is evil. It is both a great moral quality and a divine supernatural strength. The Church distinguishes three Theological Virtues, having God as their object: faith, hope, and charity, and four fundamental Cardinal Virtues. (from Latin virtus: strength, courage).[1]
In "The Gospel as It Was Revealed to Me"
Moral quality
- The Theological Virtues: Hope – Faith and Charity. The links between them and the importance of hope.[2]
- The Theological Virtues of Faith, Hope, and Charity: detached from two of the three Theological Virtues, one falls into languor and deadly coldness.[3]
- For Virtues to be true, good, start with a pure, courageous intention, which removes all dross, all flaw, and strive not to allow any Imperfection in the formation of virtue and then adopt an attitude neither too harsh nor too lenient.[4]
- The law to possess the Kingdom is nothing other than the law of virtue that every moral creature imposes on itself by elevating itself through it, and which, thanks to faith in the true God, becomes a moral law and human virtue, a law of superhuman morality.[5]
Virtuous life
- Not everything deserves reproach in your customs. When Rome was less corrupt, its women were chaste, industrious, and they served the divinity by a life of virtue and faith. Even if their miserable condition as pagans made them serve false gods, the idea was good. They gave their virtue to the Idea of Religion, to the need for respect for a Religion, for a Divinity whose true name was unknown to them, but whose existence they felt and which was greater than licentious Olympus lust.[6] (Jesus)
- Material knowledge alone is not sufficient for me to possess. The man, who by his virtue comes to sense the unknown God and to live virtuously to pay homage to this unknown God, can rightly say that he has known God because God has revealed Himself to him to Reward his virtuous life.[7]
In fundamental Christian texts
In the Catechism of the Catholic Church
- CCC 1804: Human Virtues.[8]
- CCC 1805 to 1809: The Cardinal Virtues: Prudence, justice, fortitude, and temperance.[9]
- CCC 1813 to 1829: The Theological Virtues: Faith, hope, and charity.[10]
- CCC 1830 to 1832: The gifts and fruits of the Holy Spirit.[11]
Notes and references
- ↑ Church catholique en France, Glossary
- ↑ EMV 256
- ↑ EMV 268
- ↑ EMV 434
- ↑ EMV 463
- ↑ EMV 531
- ↑ EMV 534
- ↑ CEC 1804, Human Virtues
- ↑ CEC 1805 to 1809, The Cardinal Virtues: Prudence, justice, fortitude, and temperance
- ↑ CEC 1813 to 1829, The Theological Virtues: Faith, hope, and charity
- ↑ CEC 1830 to 1832, The gifts and fruits of the Holy Spirit