supernatural virtue

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Created charity is defined: "A supernatural virtue infused by God, through which we love with friendship God, the author of our beatitude, on account of His own goodness, and our neighbor, on account of God."

From Moral Theology A Complete Course Based on St. Thomas Aquinas and the Best Modern Authorities by Callan, Charles Jerome

When worthy means of obtaining redress are exhausted it requires almost a supernatural virtue not to acquiesce in unworthy means.

From A Short History of English Liberalism by Blease, Walter Lyon

And first, it is plain there is nothing extravagant in this report of the relics having a supernatural virtue; and for this reason, because there are such instances in Scripture, and Scripture cannot be extravagant.

From Apologia pro Vita Sua by Newman, John Henry

There is no supernatural virtue in the crystal itself—it is merely a means to an end; a piece of useful apparatus to aid in the production of certain phenomena.

From Clairvoyance and Occult Powers by Panchadasi, Swami

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 Pike, Albert