Charity and Learning
Aileen H. Clyde October 1994 General Relief Society Meeting
The women of our church have mobilized themselves many times in loving service to one another, to their families, and to their larger communities. The tasks we undertake may vary significantly, but we believe the how, or the way we go about such work, separates us from the world because of our desire to be guided spiritually and to act with charity. Our scriptural records suggest to us that charity, the word we use for the highest form of love, even “the pure love of Christ” (Moro. 7:47), is learned. As we learn, we are capable of being kind, without envy, not easily provoked, rejoicing in truth, bearing, believing, hoping, enduring all things (see 1 Cor. 13:4–7). Charity comes to us as we move from grace to grace and as we build precept on precept: