How To Grow In Virtue When You Lack Willpower

[Michie]

The word virtue suggests something strong, but also difficult. Virtue is a good habit that makes you good. It also makes your life easier, because, just like any habit, as you grow in it, you do it more easily, almost unconsciously. Contrary to the modern view, something doesn’t have to be difficult for it to be moral. Indeed, the more virtuous you are, the easier it is to act virtuously.


Virtues don’t just make life easier for you. They also make you happier and healthier. The ancients taught this, and modern psychological science is proving it. Each virtue is like a superpower habit, that anyone can acquire, through daily practice, and that makes life easier, happier, healthier, and more effective. I call them “superhabits.”

Growing In Virtue​

Continued below.

How To Grow In Virtue When You Lack Willpower - Catholic-Link

The word virtue suggests something strong, but also difficult Virtue is a good habit that makes you good It can't be acquired by willpower

catholic-link.org

 

[Mark Quayle]

The word virtue suggests something strong, but also difficult. Virtue is a good habit that makes you good. It also makes your life easier, because, just like any habit, as you grow in it, you do it more easily, almost unconsciously. Contrary to the modern view, something doesn’t have to be difficult for it to be moral. Indeed, the more virtuous you are, the easier it is to act virtuously.


Virtues don’t just make life easier for you. They also make you happier and healthier. The ancients taught this, and modern psychological science is proving it. Each virtue is like a superpower habit, that anyone can acquire, through daily practice, and that makes life easier, happier, healthier, and more effective. I call them “superhabits.”

Growing In Virtue​

Continued below.

How To Grow In Virtue When You Lack Willpower - Catholic-Link

The word virtue suggests something strong, but also difficult Virtue is a good habit that makes you good It can't be acquired by willpower

catholic-link.org

There is nothing you can do, apart from Christ. Virtue is HIS to perform in you, though it wears you out with effort. He will make sure that you will learn you can never measure up, and that measuring up is not his purpose for you, but to come to know him as your very life.