supernatural virtue
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The supernatural virtue of charity renders us capable of loving God in a worthy and meritorious manner and of loving that which God loves.
From The Excellence of the Rosary Conferences for Devotions in Honor of the Blessed Virgin by Math Josef Frings
It was made to express, to represent God; but without attributing to the mere number ONE any divine or supernatural virtue.
From Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Albert Pike
When Dr. Newman was ordained in 1824, he has told us, he did not look on ordination as a sacramental rite, nor did he ascribe to baptism any supernatural virtue.
From Res Judicat? Papers and Essays by Augustine Birrell
He therefore carefully cherished in those about him the idea that there was in him a kind of supernatural virtue, and that he had the agents of an invisible world at his command.
From Lives of the Necromancers by William Godwin
Why, then, should Catholics not be permitted to honor the heroes of their faith, who excelled in the practice of supernatural virtue and are in special grace and favor with God?
From Mary, Help of Christians And the Fourteen Saints Invoked as Holy Helpers: Instructions, Novenas and Prayers with Thoughts of the Saints for Every Day in the Year by John J. (John James) Burke
