Virtue

Love is....

bob@cmfhq.org (Bob Flynn) — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 20:49:00 GMT

Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud or rude. It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged. It does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out. Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance. (1 Corinthians 13:4-7 NLT)

Growing - Robert Murray M'Cheyne

bob@cmfhq.org (Bob Flynn) — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 14:31:00 GMT

The only way to be kept from falling is to grow. (Robert Murray M'Cheyne)

Natural Law

bob@cmfhq.org (Bob Flynn) — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 14:04:00 GMT

"The law of gravity tells you what stones do if you drop them; but the Law of Human Nature tells you what human beings ought to do and do not." C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

Sexual Purity—On the Rock Or Under It?

bob@cmfhq.org (Bob Flynn) — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 14:02:00 GMT

Sexual immorality is one of the chief causes of divorce! That is why I continue to bring up the necessity for living the lives of purity to which we are called. It is time for the men of this country to take the hint from Job and make a covenant with our eyes! (Job 31:1)

Temperance

bob@cmfhq.org (Bob Flynn) — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 13:59:00 GMT

Temperance is, unfortunately, one of those words that has changed its meaning. It now usually means teetotalism. But in the days when the second Cardinal virtue was christened "Temperance," it meant nothing of the sort. Temperance referred not specially to drink, but to all pleasures; and it meant not abstaining, but going the right length and no further. (C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity)

Prudence - Wisdom Applied to Practice

bob@cmfhq.org (Bob Flynn) — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:57:00 GMT

Let us say then, leaving unresolved problems behind us, that virtues are in general beneficial characteristics, and indeed ones that a human being needs to have, for his own sake and the sake of his fellows (Philippi Foot, Prof. Emeritus, UCLA, Virtue and Vices).

Virtue - What is it?

bob@cmfhq.org (Bob Flynn) — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:00:00 GMT

Virtue — Moral goodness; the practice of moral duties and the abstaining from vice, or a conformity of life and conversation to the moral law. (Noah Webster)

Virtue - Our Bliss Below

bob@cmfhq.org (Bob Flynn) — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:00:00 GMT

BLISS, n. The highest degree of happiness; blessedness; felicity; used of felicity in general, when of an exalted kind, but appropriately, of heavenly joys. (Noah Webster)

Feed Your Faith

bob@cmfhq.org (Bob Flynn) — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:00:00 GMT

Neither this belief nor any other will automatically remain alive in the mind. It must be fed. And as a matter of fact, if you examined a hundred people who had lost their faith in Christianity, I wonder how many of them would turn out to have been reasoned out of it by honest argument? Do not most people drift away? (C. S. Lewis, Virtue and Vice)

Vice and Virtue

bob@cmfhq.org (Bob Flynn) — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:00:00 GMT

"Vice and Virtue to the modern ear convey meanings twisted by our own culture and behavior. The word vice sounds benign, describing fundamentally harmless habits and attitudes, the kinds of things normal people do and feel." C. S. Lewis, Virtue and Vice