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_

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