"Virtue is he ability and power to chase good, which arises from a transformation of our heart and mind. If we are not virtuous people, we are ontrolled by the desires and tendencies of our fallen nature.
In our society we talk a lot about freedom. By this we usually mean the freedom to do what we want to do. But virtue is a higher freedom--the freedom to not do what we know we should not do. It is the freedom to resist the control of our lusts and volatile emotions and to make holy, just, and righteous decisions. True freedom is the ability to obey God's commands and to act as we know we ought..." by Terry W. Glaspey
Monday, March 30, 2009
Virtue
Just an ordinary woman, striving to be that "aged" woman of Titus 2..teaching the younger women good things: so that they may be sober, love their husbands, love their children, and to be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands that the Word of God be not blasphemed.
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