Category: Temperance
Temperance brings order to our appetites so that the body and the senses can fulfil their proper role
A person who drifts from one activity to another according to whatever happens to attract his attention
There are many ways of looking at the same reality.
Our attention is one of the most valuable gifts God has given us.
"The practice of virtue reveals the path to God, growing through daily acts that shape character and fate."
"The truly virtuous person doesn’t just do the right thing; he also desires rightly."
The virtue of poverty consists in living with our heart in God, and therefore detached from material things.
Christian materialism, instead of making us despise consumer goods, should move us to take good care of the material wealth that we possess.