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Example sentences for "special virtue"

  • But sanctity is in its essence a special virtue, and as such is, in a sort, the same as religion.

  • Hence it is manifest that religion is a special virtue.

  • And consequently it is not a special virtue.

  • It functions in ordinary affairs, for there is a special virtue of magnificence that makes wealthy men spend money lavishly in enterprise of the greatest moment.

  • It is, moreover, a special virtue, for it regulates the special natural inclination which moves man to attack what is harmful and injurious and has its own distinctive ends (see 2381).

  • The beneficiary of liberality is another, for no special virtue is needed to make one use money freely for one's own needs or comfort.

  • Therefore, in like manner, neither is penance, which is sorrow for past sins, a special virtue, but an emotion resulting from charity.

  • The efficacy of Christ's Resurrection reaches souls not from any special virtue of His risen body, but from the virtue of the Godhead personally united with it.

  • But joy for the good one has done is not a special virtue, but is a praiseworthy emotion proceeding from charity, as Augustine states (De Civ.

  • Objection 1: It would seem that penance is not a special virtue.

  • Objection 1: It would seem that charity is not a special virtue.

  • Now no special virtue is included in the definition of virtue in general.

  • In this way it is a special virtue, and a part of justice: for a man does his duty by his superior when he obeys him: and thus obedience follows faith, whereby man knows that God is his superior, Whom he must obey.

  • There is no special virtue in silence, celibacy, and abstinence from the enjoyment of God's gifts to mankind.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    flung myself; just men made perfect; orderly arrangement; quietly said; readily imagined; special circumstances; special classes; special court; special creation; special election; special friend; special grace; special interest; special interests; special licence; special meeting; special message; special notice; special privilege; special purpose; special revelation; special rule; special sense; special study; special subject; this afternoon