This woman, along with seven children, allowed the tyrant and executioner to extract her vitals from her body rather than a profane word from her mouth. Scriptures present to us a woman of amazing fortitude, and I must at once go on to her case. Fortitude is love bearing everything for the sake of God. The office of temperance is in restraining and quieting the passions which make us pant for those things which turn us away from the laws of God and from the enjoyment of His goodness, that is, in a word, from the happy life.Fortitude is love readily bearing all things for the sake of the loved object. Let us consider temperance, which promises us a kind of integrity and incorruption in the love by which we are united to God. Temperance is love keeping itself entire and incorrupt for God. The four virtues are the following:Temperance is love giving itself entirely to that which is loved (God). Augustine, are taken from four forms of love. Dan on April 6th, 2009 at 12:38 pm:The Christian definition of the Four Virtues, by St.
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