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 Frings, Math Josef

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

Grace would be required for them, as for every other act of supernatural virtue, but no one would say that to assume such obligations a special call from heaven is prerequisite.

From What Shall I Be? A Chat With Young People by Cassilly, Francis Bernard

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

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 Godwin, William