In Moroni 7:47, the prophet Mormon defined charity as the pure love of Christ. Two verses prior, he outlined several qualities of charity:<\/p>\n
*Suffers long
\n*Is kind
\n*Envies not
\n*Is not puffed up
\n*Seeks not her own
\n*Is not easily provoked
\n*Thinks no evil
\n*Rejoices not in iniquity but in truth
\n*Bears all things
\n*Believes all things
\n*Hopeth all things
\n*Endures all things<\/p>\n
So my question then is how do each of these make one charitable. It’s easy for me to see how being kind fits into our traditional definition of charity. But how does having evil thoughts or being long suffering, for example, amount to being charitable?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"