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"God is charity.
By this hath the charity of God
appeared toward us, because God hath sent His only
begotte~ Son into the world, that we may live by
Him. . . .
"My dearest, if God hath so loved us, we also ought
to love one another. . . . Let us love God because
God first hath loved us. And this commandment we
have from God, that he, who loveth God, love also his
brother " (I John iv).
"And this is charity, that we walk according to His
commandments" (z John vi).
"Before all things have a constant mutual charity
among yourselves: for charity covereth a multitude of
sins" (I Peter iv. 8).
" h e is the fulfillzng qf the law" (Rom. xiii. 10).
"All the law and the prophets depend upon the law
of love" (Matt. xxii. 40).
A rightly ordered love moves us to the observance of
every law. A loving soul is most obedient to the law.
Love is the spring of its actions. Its love impels it to
obey. St. Augustine understood this so well, that he
hesitated not to say: " Dilige el fa6 quod vis" : "Love,
and do what you will." - ST. AUGUSTINE, Tract. vii,
in Epis.
"The end of the commandment is charity from a
pure hear?, and a good conscience, and an unfeigned
faith" (I Tim. i. 5).
And this is the "game of love". "By how much the
more a man dies to himself, by so much more he lives
to God." - ST. CATHEBINE SIEN., Didogue on Perfection.
All good things, all great things, in the world, have
been accomplished through self-denial and self-control.
St. Teresa says: "Love spurs us on to do great
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