What Is Virtue?

So if you think of a virtue as a character trait, it's like a disposition to think, feel and act certain ways. So I might have, I might be compassionate, but might not be any circumstances to display. And then all of a sudden there are, if I've got that virtue, it's a sort of ingrained habit, character trait, and then I'll act in compassionate ways. From Christians, a perspective, our function is to know and love God and other people,. The virtues point us towards that union with God and that transformational union with God.