Category: Human Virtue
"Wouldn’t it be wonderful if we could call everyone in our workaday world friends!"
If with the help of grace we reject the ‘tongue-tied’ devil, we will find that one of the immediate fruits of sincerity is joy and peace in our souls.
"Look at the birds of the air; they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them."
How pleasant it is when a friend comes to us in the midst of some difficulty and says: You can count on me!
"The truly virtuous person doesn’t just do the right thing; he also desires rightly."
Though it is perfectly natural to experience sadness over loss or injury, the virtue of patience enables us to bear suffering without being broken by sorrow or led to forsake the way of virtue.
We need patience to endure the sorrow that besets us so that we do not betray the good we have.
God's gifts are meant to lead us to him, not away from him.
The gift of fortitude, which is so necessary in our path toward heaven, is obtained from God through prayer and the sacraments.