A virtue which is not acquired by repeated acts of our own, as, to some extent, the natural virtues may be, e.g., prudence or temperance, but is caused, or given, or poured into our souls from above and is therefore supernatural, like faith, hope, charity, and also the natural virtues, when sanctifying grace is given to us in order to practise them more easily and perfectly.
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