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It will be given to him who already has and he shall abound, for everyone who has the gift of charity receives other gifts besides. But he who has not the gift of charity will lose even those gifts that he seemed to have.
So it is necessary, brethren, that charity should be the motive of all your actions. … No idler is completely deprived of talent. … One receives the gift of intelligence. … Another receives worldly wealth … another … the craft with which he learns his livelihood … a fourth friendship of a rich man.
+St. Gregory the Great: Parables of the Gospel
