Section 1—The Divine Philosophy of
Suffering and Poverty
[14]
Gem Thought
Sin has extinguished the love that God placed in man’s heart. The
work of the church is to rekindle this love. The church is to cooperate
with God by uprooting selfishness from the human heart, placing in its
stead the benevolence that was in man’s heart in his original state of
perfection.—
Letter 134, 1902
.
[15]
For the poor shall never cease out of the land: therefore I command
thee, saying, Thou shalt open thine hand wide unto thy brother, to thy
poor, and to thy needy in thy land.
Deuteronomy 15, 11
.