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Virtue 1 - Love: The Lodestar of Life; Virtue 2 - Where There Is Honesty, Other Virtues Will Follow; Virtue 3 - Making a Case for Morality; Virtue 4 - Our Fading Civility; Virtue 5 - Learning: "With All Thy Getting, get Understanding" Virtue 6 - The Twin Virtues of Forgiveness and Mercy; Virtue 7 - Thrift and Industry: Getting Our Houses in Order
The Moral Compass (subtitled A Companion to The Book of Virtues and Stories for a Life's Journey) is a 1995 anthology edited by William Bennett. A follow-up to the 1993 collection The Book of Virtues , it consists of seven chapters devoted to different stages of life, with passages from Western civilization and various other cultures.
wonder worker or source of benevolent power; intercessor; a life often refusing material attachments or comforts; possession of a special and revelatory relation to the holy. The anthropologist Lawrence Babb, in an article about Indian guru Sathya Sai Baba, asks the question "Who is a saint?" and responds by saying that in the symbolic ...
Catholic doctrine supports intercessory prayer to saints. This practice is an application of the doctrine of the Communion of saints . Some of the early basis for this was the belief that martyrs passed immediately into the presence of God and could obtain graces and blessings for others, which naturally and immediately led to their direct ...
A German votive offering thanks to the Virgin Mary in the form of a painting (1796) Intercession or intercessory prayer is the act of praying on behalf of others, or asking a saint in heaven to pray on behalf of oneself or for others. [1] The Apostle Paul's exhortation to Timothy specified that intercession prayers should be made for all people.
Canada is a beautiful country and an outdoors lover's paradise, with national parks such as Banff and amazing winter sports in Whistler.. But outside Quebec and a handful of other provinces ...
A New Jersey congressman claimed Wednesday that the mystery drones over the Garden State are from Iran, and they’re being launched by a mothership parked off the East Coast.
The Protestant scholar Klaus Bockmuehl believes that the Church replaced the Commandments with lists of virtues and vices, such as the seven deadly sins, from 400 to 1200. [26] Other scholars contend that throughout Church history the Commandments have been used as an examination of conscience and that many theologians have written about them ...