THE ACTIVITY OF CHARITY

Charity is an inward affection, moving man to do what is good, and
this without recompense. So to act is his life's delight.

The life of charity is to will well and to do well by the neighbor; in
all work, and in every employment, acting out of regard to what is
just and equitable, good and true. In a word, the life of charity
consists in the performance of uses.

--_Heavenly Doctrine, nn._ 106, 124


FAITH THE PARTNER OF CHARITY

Neither charity alone nor faith alone can produce good works, any more
than a husband alone or a wife alone can have offspring. The truths of
faith not only illuminate charity, but qualify it, too; and, moreover,
they nourish it. A man, then, who has charity and not truths of faith,
is like one walking in a garden in the night-time, snatching fruit
from the trees without knowing whether it is of a good or evil use.

--_True Christian Religion, n. 377_


THE PATRIOTISM OF CHARITY

One's country is the neighbor more than a society, for it consists of
many societies, and consequently the love of it is a more extended and