Life itself seems to draw us into a self-improvement movement, either by personal choice or through life’s dramatic experiences.
Today I was thinking about the virtues and I believe that we’re all drawn to these qualities to some degree. I was scouring through some literature and they’ve listed seven virtues, some change the name but seems like it’s the same list… and I thought it would be a good topic to share.
Justice is being fair and equitable with others.
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~Courage is never giving up.
Wisdom is having gained knowledge, understanding, experience, discretion, and intuitive understanding, along with a capacity to apply these qualities well.
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~Prudence is moderation of needed things and abstinence from things which are not needed.
Faith is belief in the right things.
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~Hope is taking a positive future view, that good will prevail.
Love is a deep, tender feeling of affection and solicitude toward a person, such as that arising from kinship, recognition of attractive qualities, or a sense of underlying oneness.
Virtue is the moral excellence of a person. A virtue is a trait valued as being good and the opposite of virtue is vice.
As excerpted from wikepedia:
According to its etymology the word virtue signifies manliness or courage.
(who would have known!)
Taken in its widest sense virtue refers to excellence, just as vice, its contrary, denotes the absence of such. The four cardinal virtues are Justice, Courage, Wisdom, and Prudence. These were enumerated by the Greek philosophers. The three supernatural virtues of Faith, Hope and (unselfish) Love.
In the Greek it is more properly called “habitual excellence”.
I would say that “habitual excellence” should be something we practice at all times.
Which of the above virtues would describe your person the best and why?
Daisy Says: Our virtues and our vices become more obvious with the passing of time.
“Do not do unto others as you would have them do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.” (George Bernard Shaw)