LJ 39 - Charity

LJ 39

To know truths,
to will truths,
and to be affected by truths for the truth's sake,
that is, because they are truths,
is charity.

. . . charity consists in performing uses for the sake of uses,
and its kind is according to uses.

To do good and truth for the sake of good and truth,
is to love the neighbor.
thpse who do this, love the Lord,
who in the supreme sense, is the neighbor.
A life of charity is a life according to the Lord's precepts;
so that to live according to Divine truths,
is to love the Lord.