From Chapter Five, Charity.
We are, however, much helped in this necessary work by that very feature of our experience at which we most repine. The invitation to turn our natural loves into Charity is never lacking. [...] In everyone, and of course in ourselves, there is that which requires forbearance, tolerance, forgiveness. The necessity of practicing these virtues first sets us, forces us, upon the attempt to turn -- more strictly, to let God turn -- our love into Charity. These frets and rubs are beneficial. It may even be that where there are fewest of them the conversion of natural love is most difficult. When they are plentiful the necessity of rising above it is obvious. To rise above it when it is fully satisfied and as little impeded as earthly conditions allow -- to see that we must rise when all seems so well already -- this may require a subtler conversion and a more delicate insight. In this way also it may be hard for "the rich" to enter the Kingdom.
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