Love (Charity)

Theological Virtue of Charity/Love:

“He who wished to secure the good of others, has already secured his own.”

 Confucius

551-479B.C.

“Every good act is charity. A man's true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.”

 Moliere

1622-1673

“If you haven't any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.”

 Bob Hope

1903-2003

1 Corinthians 13:1-12 [NIV]

Love

 ¹If I speak in the tongues^[a] of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. ²If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. ³If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames,^[b] but have not love, I gain nothing.

 ⁴Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. ⁵It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. ⁶Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. ⁷It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

 ⁸Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. ⁹For we know in part and we prophesy in part, ¹⁰but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears. ¹¹When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me. ¹²Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.

13   And now dwelleth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the most of these is charity.*

* Wycliffe New Testament 1 Corinthians 13:13

St. Paul

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