That virtue therefore which is but a youngling

This means that justice as taught by the Greeks has a new godly dimension. In both Testaments if an action is good it is both just to the extent it is good for society and also righteous in regard to its ability to please God. From the biblical perspective it is essential to have both the Godward and manward dimensions correct. It is impressive that this worked not only in the Hebrew theocracy, but also survives as a norm for people in churches which are scattered among the nations.

Together these Greek and Biblical social virtues lead to decent, polite, thoughtful people who are involved in their public life as honest and positive contributors. They cite reason as the cornerstone and therefore find that virtue is found in education. Christians will say that these virtues are found in the entire human person who is in right relationship to God. We cite a solid homelife and a proper church involvement accompanied by good education as the way to instill these Christian virtues in the young and to carry on these virtues over the generations.

So how essential is virtue to our lives? Being proud of yourself and knowing your worth is good. It gives us a skewed sense of self-importance. And that is something that our children need to learn and understand. Diligence is one of the seven heavenly virtues in the Christian tradition. Unfortunately, it is a virtue that is slowly eroding in our generation.

In a time where almost everything can be done at the push of a button, persistence and hard work may seem like an outdated notion. But we can certainly learn from how the people of those times value hard work. Growing up, we were often told that patience is a virtue. But if you look around you, everything seems to be instant: food, coffee, messaging. Even dating has become instant. Or when our food is delivered late. But as this Forbes article pointed out, there are benefits to being patient.

For one, it helps you weigh your options more carefully and thus make better decisions. It also helps you develop traits that will eventually prepare you for success. Patiently waiting for and working hard for something also makes success a lot sweeter. This is what the next generation needs to appreciate. Life is much better if we learn to slow down and appreciate the moment. After all, life is not just about money and achievements. You can donate to help the poor and homeless through our christian charity online.

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Therefore, Part I of the Virtue Program is comprised of these virtues. The Theological Virtues of faith, hope, and charity are infused along with sanctifying grace into the soul of the person at Baptism.

These virtues are supernatural, meaning that they are above our nature. The virtues of faith, hope, and charity form the foundation of the Christian life because they bestow on us the capacity to live in a relationship with the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

We grow in the virtues of faith, hope and charity by nourishing them through reading the Word of God, begging the Lord in daily prayer to increase them in us, receiving the Sacraments to strengthen us to persevere in living the virtues, studying the Faith in an ongoing way, cooperating with the Holy Spirit, following His call to do what is good and shun what is evil, and by serving our neighbor through works of charity.

The Theological Virtues inform and give life to the Cardinal Virtues of prudence, justice, fortitude, and temperance. We grow in the virtues of prudence, justice, fortitude and temperance through human effort. This involves yearly teaching on the virtues, the practice of making deliberate acts of right judgment, being fair, having courage and exercising moderation.

Nor boots it to say for these, and all the heathen writers of greatest infection, if it must be thought so, with whom is bound up the life of human learning, that they writ in an unknown tongue, so long as we are sure those languages are known as well to the worst of men, who are both most able, and most diligent to instil the poison they suck, first into the courts of princes, acquainting them with the choicest delights, and criticisms of sin.

As perhaps did that Petronius whom Nero called his Arbiter, the master of his revels; and the notorious ribald of Arezzo, dreaded and yet dear to the Italian courtiers. By which compendious way all the contagion that foreign books can infuse will find a passage to the people far easier and shorter than an Indian voyage, tho it could be sailed either by the north of Cataio eastward, or of Canada westward, while our Spanish licensing gags the English press never so severely.

But on the other side that infection which is from books of controversy in religion is more doubtful and dangerous to the learned than to the ignorant; and yet those books must be permitted untouched by the licenser.