Charity.

 "Charity is the pure love of Christ. It is the love that Christ has for the children of men and that the children of men should have for one another. It is the highest, noblest, and strongest kind of love and the most joyous to the soul."

Gospel Topics. 

Charity, as Christ has taught/cannot be forced or tricked or bought/A love so pure it breeds compassion/that molds us in a softer fashion/True charity will suffer long/before responding to a wrong.

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"Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel . . ."

King Lear.

Christ knows all of woe and weal/Our afflictions he does feel/He exposed himself to pain/So comprehension he would gain/Because of this his charity/is given with sweet clarity. 

"Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends."

Jesus Christ. 

Charity sans sacrifice/is colder than the Arctic ice/Adulterated with conceit/it leaves the giver incomplete/Christ's example of pure love/is the greatest proof thereof.

 “’Twas I; but ’tis not I: I do not shame to tell you what I was, since my conversion so sweetly tastes, being the thing I am.”

As You Like It.

In charity the Lord decrees/our sins can drift upon the breeze/of his refreshing love -- depart/out from our beleaguered heart/when we change and thus repent/of time with vice so foolish spent.

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"Charity never faileth."

First Corinthians 7:48.

Charity is such a force/that it will always stay the course/When other virtues don't pan out/charity is still about/That's because the Savior's plan/offers charity to man.

Haiku:   "And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins."

Peter 4:8

Kindness heals all,

sweeping/erasing wrong roads --

repaved by the Christ.