CHARITY

The pivot of perfection ...

The pivot of perfection is charity; he who lives in charity lives in God, because God is charity, as the Apostle says.

Charity which has not ...

Charity which has not truth and justice for its foundation is faulty. He who offends against charity, offends the pupil of the eye of God.

To fail in charity ...

To fail in charity is like wounding God in the pupil of his eye. What is more delicate than the pupil of the eye? To fail in charity is like failing against nature.

Try always to advancer ...

Try always to advancer more in charity: enlarge your heart with confidence for the divine gifts which the Holy Spirit is anxious to pour into it.

Always do a little ...

Always do a little work. The wise man praises the valiant woman. Her fingers, he says, worked the spindle. Your distaff is the sum of your desires. Spin a little therefore every day; make your design thread by thread till they are all used up and you shall infallibly see their completion. But see that you do not hurry, because you might twist the thread with knots and you would entangle your spindle. Work, therefore, and though you keep on advancing slowly, you will nevertheless go a long way.

Charity is the queen ...

Charity is the queen of virtues. As the pearls are held together by the thread, thus the virtues by charity; and as the pearls fall when the thread breaks, thus the virtues are lost if charity diminishes.

Humility and charity are ...

Humility and charity are the master chords, all others depend on them. The one is the lowest, the other the highest. The preservation of the entire edifice depends on the foundation and the roof. If the heart keeps itself directed in the exercise of these, no difficulty will be encountered in the others. These are the mothers of virtue, the others follow them as the chicks do their mother.