Several degrees of love may be distinguished:(a) Natural love is the tendency of things to their ends which results,not (b) Properly, faith is implicit, if one gives assent to a truth byaccepting another in which it is contained, as a particular iscontained in a universal (e. The virtuous dispositionsreferred to are of two kinds: (a) habitual, that is, the permanentspiritual condition of the soul, such as the state of grace, the habitof charity, etc. Even those who are moreperfect must have on the helmet of hope (I Thess.
icitly, as when one spreads stories thatare bound to cause enmities, strifes, and a lowering of ideals (see 96). witself; and hence the higher or the more imperative the law, thegreater must be the reason that suffices to excuse from it. Examples: Christ gave the command that the Eucharist shouldbe received, but it was the Church that determined when and how oftenone must receive Communion to comply with the wishes of Christ. (d) It is prejudicial to the civil unity and peace of the people, thatis, it tends to the violent dismemberment of the State, or at least tothe disturbance of the common good.
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