From Chapter Five, Charity.
We are all receiving Charity. There is something in each of us that cannot be naturally loved. [...]
The natural loves are summoned to become modes of Charity while also remaining the natural loves they were. [...]
How this can happen, most Christians know. All the activities (sins only excepted) of the natural loves can in a favoured hour become works of the glad and shameless and grateful Need-love or of the selfless, unofficious Gift-love, which are both Charity. Nothing is either too trivial or too animal to be thus transformed. A game, a joke, a drink together, idle chat, a walk, the act of Venus -- all these can be modes in which we forgive or accept forgiveness, in which we "seek not our own." Thus in our very instincts, appetites and recreations, Love has prepared for Himself "a body."
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