natural virtue
Americannoun
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Instead of following the rigid training and rituals required by Confucius, they sought to liberate the natural virtue within.
From New York Times ● Dec. 15, 2014
Man is naturally in tune with the divine in nature until he lets himself be corrupted away from his original innocence and natural virtue by organized society.
From Time Magazine Archive
And this but led to the consideration of the Church's claims to elevate rational nature and natural virtue to that divine order which is above nature, and which is organic in the Catholic Church.
From Life of Father Hecker by Walter Elliott
A supernatural state does not dispense us from the obligation of practising natural virtue.
From Explanation of Catholic Morals A Concise, Reasoned, and Popular Exposition of Catholic Morals by John H. (John Henry) Stapleton
In those days men had behaved themselves: natural virtue had expressed itself in the natural way.
From The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 by Kenneth Morris
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