WITHOUT CHARITY ALL IS VANITY OF VANITIES
WITHOUT CHARITY ALL IS VANITY OF VANITIES Charity is a good disposition of the soul, according to which one prefers no creature to the knowledge of God. It is impossible to attain a lasting possession of this charity if one has any attachment to earthly things. He who loves God prefers knowledge of him to all things made by him; and by desire ceaselessly devotes himself to it. If all things have been made by God and for God, He is nobler than all things made by him; he who deserts God, the incomparably nobler, and that he prefers before God the things made by him. He that loves me keep my commandments, and this my commandment that you love one another. (John 13:34-35) He therefore who does not love his neighbor does not keep the commandment nor is he that does not keep the commandment ale to love the Lord. Happy the man who is able to love all people equally. He that loves God most certainly also love his neighbors. Such a man cannot keep money, but, God lik