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The Apostle Paul urges us above all, to assemble and construct in the inner self: faith, hope and charity. And when he was praising these three, he said at the end, but the greatest of these is charity. [1 Cor 13:13]. Aim at charity!

So what is faith, what is hope, what is charity and why is charity the greatest? Faith, as it's defined somewhere is Scripture, is the ground for things hoped for, the conviction of things which cannot be seen. When you hope, you don't yet have what you are hoping for, but by believing it you resemble someone who does possess it.

For faith he says, is the ground of things hoped for, it isn't yet the thing itself which we will eventually take hold of, but our very faith stands for the thing itself. I mean you don't have your hands on nothing when you have them on faith, nor are they empty if they are full of faith. The reason faith is greatly rewarded is that it doesn't see and yet it believes. I mean, if it could see, what reward would there be?

Now however, the people are told, "Believe," and they want to see. The answer they're given is, "In order to see eventually, for the time being; believe. Faith does the earning; sight is the reward. If you want to see before you believe, you're demanding to be paid before doing the job!"

What you want has its price. You want to see God: the price of such a tremendous good as that is faith.

Do you want to arrive, and not want to walk? Sigh is possession, faith is the way to it. If you shirk the hard work of the journey, how can you expect the joy of possession?

- Saint Augustine of Hippo. [† 430. Doctor of Grace]
^{-- Source: Maginificat}