<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=459863" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>These three</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Faith; hope; and loving-kindness; <br>these three surpass all worldly understanding: </div><div style="margin:10px 0">all these await in human nature <br>as inclinations that are natural; <br>to be awakened by the grace <br>that ever waits within us: </div><div style="margin:10px 0">as these arise, faith takes the precedence; <br>then follows, hope; itself precedes <br>the love, the charity, the loving-kindness; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">yet if alas, disorder, dissolution intervene, <br>first, love is lost; then hope; <br>and last of all goes faith; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">yet, when these come into their perfection, <br>greatest of all these, is love; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">hope and faith are then the charity <br>which love may shower on the world around <br>circle on circle as the gentle rain from heaven. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">* </div><div style="margin:10px 0">[leaning on the writings of Josef Pieper]</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Michael+Shepherd">Michael Shepherd</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=459863" data-title="These three de Michael Shepherd" data-description="Faith; hope; and loving-kindness; these three surpass all worldly understanding: all these await in human nature as inclinations that are natural; to be awakened by the grace that ever waits within us: as these arise, faith takes the prece..."></div> </div> </div>

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