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	Virtue - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The notion of virtue was commonplace in ancient philosophy, and because of its adoption by Cicero, was widely accepted by Christian philosophers and became a staple of Catholic theology.
		The thesis of the unity of the virtues is controversial.
		The opposite of a virtue is a vice.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Virtue (1316 words)

	U.S. Catholic Bishops - Catechism of the Catholic Church
		Human virtues acquired by education, by deliberate acts and by a perseverance ever-renewed in repeated efforts are purified and elevated by divine grace.
		Faith is the theological virtue by which we believe in God and believe all that he has said and revealed to us, and that Holy Church proposes for our belief, because he is truth itself.
		Hope is the theological virtue by which we desire the kingdom of heaven and eternal life as our happiness, placing our trust in Christ's promises and relying not on our own strength, but on the help of the grace of the Holy Spirit.
	www.usccb.org /catechism/text/pt3sect1chpt1art7.htm (2654 words)

	Three Theological Virtues (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Cardinal Virtues The four principal virtues upon which the rest of the moral virtues turn or are hinged.
		Gammon Theological Seminary Gammon Theological Seminary is The United Methodist component of a consortium of six historical African-American theological schools, The Interdenominational Theological Center.
		Charity, Theological Virtue of The third and greatest of the Divine virtues enumerated by St. Paul (1 Cor., xiii, 13), usually called charity, defined: a divinely infused habit, inclining the human will to cherish God for his own sake above all things, and man for the sake of God.
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Three_Theological_Virtues.html (374 words)

	Virtue
		Virtue is from the Latin virtus, the equivalent of the Greek Arete (paideia) (ἆρετή).
		In Christianity, the theological virtues are conventionally faith, hope and charity, a list which comes from 1 Corinthians 13:13.
		Virtue (translated as "de" 德) is also an important concept in Chinese philosophies particularly Confucianism.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/v/vi/virtue.html (596 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Virtue
		Intellectual virtue may be defined as a habit perfecting the intellect to elicit with readiness acts that are good in reference to their proper object, namely, truth.
		As a moral virtue it is not to be taken precisely for what is designated as final perseverance, that special gift of the predestined by which one is found in the state of grace at the moment of death.
		Faith is an infused virtue, by which the intellect is perfected by a supernatural light, in virtue of which, under a supernatural movement of the will, it assents firmly to the supernatural truths of Revelation, not on the motive of intrinsic evidence, but on the sole ground of the infallible authority of God revealing.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/15472a.htm (3880 words)

	The Number of Virtues (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The six means of perfection or transcendent virtues at the Buddhist: the patience, the charity, the energy, the wisdom or the science, the contemplation or the charity, the virtue or the purity.
		Six virtues (shat sampat): Six virtues, areas of mental training, and attitudes are cultivated so as to stabilize the mind and emotions, allowing the deep practice of contemplative meditation to be performed.
		Your life must be brightened by these thirty five essential marganusari virtues because afterwards if a person proceeds further and becomes a sadhu and if even after that the breaks anyone of these thirty five virtues he will fall from the lofty level to a low level.
	www.virtuescience.com /virtuenumbers.html (1468 words)

	Faith
		The other virtues all depend on these three because these are the key to the very life of God within our souls, and all other virtues are characteristics of that life, not self-improvement programs that we whip up within ourselves.
		These three virtues are also called the supernatural virtues to distinguish them from the natural virtues, the virtues that do not require the saving presence of God's own life in the soul for their existence (though they do require that for their perfection).
		Paul and the Protestants were using faith in its second, broader sense: as the root or center of all three theological virtues, not as an act of the intellect (as in the Baltimore Catechism definition) but as an act of the heart (in the biblical sense) or spirit or personal center.
	catholiceducation.org /articles/apologetics/ap0017.html (2832 words)

	June 5, 2000 THIS DAY OVER THE PAST TWO MILLENNIUMS: (jun5cat.htm)
		Supernatural virtues enter the soul with sanctifying grace, imparted by the Holy Spirit in the Sacraments of Baptism and Penance.
		Natural virtues mean little compared to the same virtues when supernaturalized, that is, when they flower as a result of the coming of the Holy Spirit into the soul.
		The common symbols depicting these three virtues are: the cross for faith, the anchor for hope, and the burning heart for charity.
	www.dailycatholic.org /issue/2000Jun/jun5cat.htm (643 words)

	Catechism of the Catholic Church - PART 3 SECTION 1 CHAPTER 1 ARTICLE 7
		1810 Human virtues acquired by education, by deliberate acts and by a perseverance ever-renewed in repeated efforts are purified and elevated by divine grace.
		1814 Faith is the theological virtue by which we believe in God and believe all that he has said and revealed to us, and that Holy Church proposes for our belief, because he is truth itself.
		1817 Hope is the theological virtue by which we desire the kingdom of heaven and eternal life as our happiness, placing our trust in Christ's promises and relying not on our own strength, but on the help of the grace of the Holy Spirit.
	www.scborromeo.org /ccc/p3s1c1a7.htm (2719 words)

	Light & Life Vol 46 No 3 - The Infused Virtues and The Gifts of the Holy Spirit (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		ACQUIRED virtues are good habits that we acquire through repeated effort on our part to do what is right, such as the habit of telling the truth (veracity), the habit of putting up with trying situations (patience), the habit of moderation in the taking of food and drink (temperance), etc.
		It is the key virtue, therefore, responsible for growth in grace which is the measure of glory in the life to come.
		In the light and strength it receives from the theological virtues, prudence directs and guides all the other virtues as to the proper means for attaining eternal life.
	www.rosary-center.org /ll46n3.htm (2743 words)

	Catholic Faith
		The three theological virtues are infused into the soul (Council of Trent, 6, ch.
		The infusion of these virtues has a similar effect as have the rays of the sun in imparting light and warmth to the atmosphere.
		The power of exercising the three theological virtues is imparted in Baptism and if it be lost, it is given again in the Sacrament of Penance.
	www.franciscan-sfo.org /ap/cathbelv.htm (1964 words)

	Just Another Jim: The 4 Cardinal Virtues of Trading, pt 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The four cardinal virtues of prudence, temperance, justice, and fortitude are the human response to the divine gift.
		Just as the three theological virtues are uniquely Christian, the four cardinal virtues are "natural." They apply much more broadly than just to Christian faith.
		While the three theological virtues lead to successful faith, the four cardinal virtues lead to a successful life.
	www.justanotherjim.com /virtue1.html (534 words)

	Charity; purgatory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		However, this is a very abnormal situation, given that generally in justification, as in baptism, the three theological virtues are infused at the same time.
		However, the fact that the theological virtue of charity exists alone in heaven is neither abnormal nor imperfect.
		There is no possibility of the theological virtue of faith, for faith is the assent to that which we cannot see, on the authority of God who reveals.
	www.sspx.ca /Angelus/2004_July/Questions.htm (888 words)

	The Contrary, Heavenly, and Cardinal Virtues
		Christian Church authorities called them the three theological virtues because they believed the virtues were not natural to man in his fallen state, but were conferred at Baptism.
		The Contrary Virtues were derived from the Psychomachia ("Battle for the Soul"), an epic poem written by Prudentius (c.
		Practicing these virtues is alledged to protect one against temptation toward the Seven Deadly Sins: humility against pride, kindness against envy, abstinence against gluttony, chastity against lust, patience against anger, liberality against greed, and diligence against sloth.
	www.deadlysins.com /virtues.html (271 words)

	Elements of Basic Catholic Belief
		The power of exercising the three theological virtues is imparted in Baptism (CCC 1266), and if it be lost, it is given again in the Sacrament of Penance.
		of the three theological virtues frequently in the course of our life, especially before approaching the sacraments and at the hour of death.
		The means of making acts of the three theological virtues is to place before the mind the object and the motive of these virtues.
	landru.i-link-2.net /shnyves/basic_belief.htm (2232 words)

	Three Virtues of the Heart: Kindheartedness, Lightheartedness, and Warmheartedness - Donald DeMarco, Ph.D - Catholic ...
		They are the virtues that the writer is comfortable with, more than the philosopher is, since they show how a good habit can incarnate itself in the body language of its possessor so well that it becomes palpable to others.
		But this is not the case with the triad of “infectious virtues.” We literally feel their kindness, cheer, and warmth.
		In other words, it is the most infectious of the three, the one most likely to be imitated, the one most likely to be passed on.
	www.catholic.net /rcc/Periodicals/Faith/may-june99/Virtues.html (2481 words)

	Theological Virtues
		When we think of the three theological virtues of Faith, Hope, and Charity (Love), we have many conceptions of what they mean and how they interact in our lives, and what is required for living these virtues.
		Paul is here drawing a relationship between the theological virtue of Faith and that of Hope.
		The virtue of Hope, like Faith, is based on that knowledge of the goodness and omnipotence of God.
	www.therealpresence.org /eucharst/misc/virtues.html (4039 words)

	The Three Ways of the Spiritual Life
		In addition to the theological virtues there are also the infused moral virtues, which perfect man in his use of the means of salvation, just as the former dispose him rightly in regard to his end.
		This division of the three stages of the spiritual life is set out in the following table, which should be read beginning from below; the three purgations or conversions figure in the table as transitions from one stage to another.
		WE have seen the different conceptions which various writers have proposed of the three stages or periods of the spiritual life; and we have seen which of these is to be regarded as the traditional one.
	www.ourladyswarriors.org /saints/3ways.htm (20274 words)

	CATECHISM OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH
		Prudent education teaches virtue; it prevents or cures fear, selfishness and pride, resentment arising from guilt, and feelings of complacency, born of human weakness and faults.
		1812 The human virtues are rooted in the theological virtues, which adapt man's faculties for participation in the divine nature:[76] for the theological virtues relate directly to God.
		1827 The practice of all the virtues is animated and inspired by charity, which "binds everything together in perfect harmony";[105] it is the form of the virtues; it articulates and orders them among themselves; it is the source and the goal of their Christian practice.
	www.christusrex.org /www1/CDHN/moral.html (4199 words)

	The Chief Virtues of Man (1905)
		There are very many virtues belonging to humanity; but there are two classes which stand out quite apart from all others, and which, by reason of their object, have been called the theological and the moral virtues.
		These seven virtues together go to make up the endowment of the soul, the cardinal virtues being the foundation of the active life of the Christian in the world, and the theological virtues forming the basis of the contemplative life.
		Fortitude is the virtue which regulates the irascible appetite of man, and enables him to surmount all obstacles and to overcome all difficulties in his path, by giving him courage to choose the lesser evil or harm, in order to avoid a greater.
	justus.anglican.org /resources/pc/usa/mortimer/chief_virtues.html (12972 words)

	Ascent of Mount Carmel (v.vi) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Wherein is described how it is the three theological virtues that perfect the three faculties of the soul, and how the said virtues produce emptiness and darkness within them.
		This virtue, then, also produces emptiness, for it has to do with that which is not possessed and not with that which is possessed.
		To these three virtues, then, we have to lead the three faculties of the soul, informing each faculty by each one of them, and stripping it and setting it in darkness concerning all things save only these three virtues.
	www.ccel.org /ccel/john_cross/ascent.v.vi.html (866 words)

	Summa Theologica (FS_Q62_A3) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		For the theological virtues are in relation to Divine happiness, what the natural inclination is in relation to the connatural end.
		Likewise hope is not reckoned among the moral virtues, but is something less than a virtue, since it is a passion.
		I answer that, As stated above (A[1]), the theological virtues direct man to supernatural happiness in the same way as by the natural inclination man is directed to his connatural end.
	www.ccel.org /ccel/aquinas/summa.FS_Q62_A3.html (731 words)

	The Theological Virtues of Faith, Hope, and Love
		They are called theological virtues because the word 'theological' means 'belonging to or relating to God'.
		Twenty eight years later, on January 28, 1756, Pope Benedict XIV (1675-1758), who felt strongly that these Theological Virtues were ever so important, confirmed his predecessor's grant and extended the grant to include a partial indulgence whenever they were recited.
		MY God, I firmly believe that Thou art one God in three divine persons, Father, Son and Holy Spirit; I believe that Thy divine Son became man and died for our sins, and that He shall come to judge the living and the dead.
	truecatholic.bizland.com /Faith_Hope_Charity.htm (1035 words)

	SUMMA THEOLOGICA: How many, and which are they? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Further, the theological virtues are more perfect than the intellectual and moral virtues.
		Therefore there should be only two theological virtues, one perfecting the intellect, the other, the will.
		I answer that, As stated above (1), the theological virtues direct man to supernatural happiness in the same way as by the natural inclination man is directed to his connatural end.
	www.newadvent.org /summa/206203.htm (724 words)

	Aquinas 122098: Defining the Theological Virtues (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		These are virtues of action – moral virtues.
		In the second half of the second part, Aquinas begins to discuss three theological virtues: faith, hope, and charity.
		These short definitions are not intended to present a full knowledge of the theological virtues.
	www.catholic-forum.com /churches/luxver/AquinasLessons/aq122098.htm (164 words)

	Seven Virtues (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Among the multi-coloured, painted marble slabs of the dado level, illusionistically depicted niches open up, in which Giotto has painted, as stone statues, the Virtues on one side of the chapel and the Vices on the other.
		The canon of principal Christian virtues in the Middle Ages was made up of the three 'theological virtues' faith, hope and charity, and the four 'cardinal virtues', justice, prudence, fortitude and temperance.
		The cycle of seven virtues, sometimes paired with appropriate vices (not necessarily the seven Deadly Sins) was widely represented in medieval sculpture and fresco, often associated with the Last Judgment, like in the Scrovegni Chapel.
	www.wga.hu /html/g/giotto/padova/decorati/7_virtue (161 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Habit
		It is needless to insist on the importance of habit in moral conduct; the majority of actions are performed under its influence, frequently without reflection, and in accordance with principles or prejudices to which the mind has become accustomed.
		With habitual grace the three theological virtues, which are also habitus supernaturales, and, according to the more common opinion, the four cardinal virtues and the gifts of the Holy Ghost, are infused in the soul.
		The facility--habit proper, or virtue in the strict sense--is acquired by the co-operation of man with Divine grace and the repetition of acts.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/07099b.htm (3274 words)

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