Fervor is a fire that makes things boil and grow hot, just as fire causes water to boil. It is, properly speaking, charity on fire, and that is what you should have because a Daughter without Charity is like a body without a soul.
Interpretation
Fervor represents passionate love and charity, essential for a fulfilling life.
In this quote, St. Vincent emphasizes the importance of fervor, likening it to a passionate and fiery charity that invigorates life. He suggests that without fervor, represented as charity, one is incomplete, much like a body is lifeless without a soul. This illustrates the profound role that love and compassion play in nurturing and sustaining our existence.
In practice
During a charity event, one could use this quote to inspire volunteers about the importance of charity.
It ought to be considered a great misfortune, not only for individuals, but also for Houses and Congregations, to have everything in conformity with their wishes; to go on quietly, and to suffer nothing for the love of God. Yes, consider it certain that a person or a Congregation that does not suffer and is applauded by all the world is near a fall.
Let us love God my brothers, let us love God. But let it be with the strength of our arms and the sweat of our brow.
It is from your hands that Our Lord, in the person of the sick, seeks relief.
Charity is the cement that unites communities to God and individuals to each other_x000D_ so that he who contributes to the union of hearts in a community_x000D_ binds it indissolubly to God.
We ought to deal kindly with all, and to manifest those qualities which spring naturally from a heart tender and full of Christian charity; such as affability, love and humility. These virtues serve wonderfully to gain the hearts of men, and to encourage them to embrace things that are more repugnant to nature.
However great the work that God may achieve by an individual, he must not indulge in self-satisfaction. He ought rather to be all the more humbled, seeing himself merely as a tool which God has made use of.
He loves but little who can say and count in words, how much he loves.
I believe that marriage isn't between a man and woman; but between love and love.
I can’t tell you just how wonderful she is. I don’t want you to know. I don’t want any one to know.
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my lids and all is born again. (I think I made you up inside my head.) The stars go waltzing out in blue and red, And arbitrary blackness gallops in: I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead. I dreamed that you bewitched me into bed And sung me moon-struck, kissed me quite insane. (I think I made you up inside my head.)
You know my God. My God is called love
He loved her, of course, but better than that, he chose her, day after day. Choice: that was the thing.
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