Charity

Christ’s love for us is so strong, pure, and selfless. This type of love is referred to as Charity. We are commanded to follow the example of Jesus Christ; therefore, we are commanded to be charitable. Charity is not an attribute of the natural man, and it is something that must be learned. We must serve others so that we can learn to love them. We must also diligently pray to God for charity—charity is a gift of God. I know that it seems impossible to gain such a pure, selfless love for others, but I testify that through God all things are possible. I have faith in Him. I know that He would never command me to do something I am incapable of. Through a conscious effort, serving others, and prayer I know that we can all learn to have charity towards the children of God.

“As you keep the faith, you will find yourself invited by the Lord often to serve someone in need when it will not seem convenient. It may appear to be an unpleasant and perhaps even impossible task. When the call comes, it may seem you are not needed or that someone else could easily give the succor.”
–President Eyring, The Caregiver, October 2012 General Conference

“The more we allow the love of God to govern our minds and emotions—the more we allow our love for our Heavenly Father to swell within our hearts—the easier it is to love others with the pure love of Christ. As we open our hearts to the glowing dawn of the love of God, the darkness and cold of animosity and envy will eventually fade.”

–President Uchtdorf, The Merciful Obtain Mercy, April 2012 General Conference

“The pure love of Christ can remove the scales of resentment and wrath from our eyes, allowing us to see others the way our Heavenly Father sees us: as flawed and imperfect mortals who have potential and worth far beyond our capacity to imagine. Because God loves us so much, we too must love and forgive each other.”

 –President Uchtdorf, The Merciful Obtain Mercy, April 2012 General Conference

“There is power in our love for God and for His children, and when that love is tangibly manifest in millions of acts of Christian kindness, it will sweeten and nourish the world with the life-sustaining nectar of faith, hope, and charity.”

 –Elder Ballard, Be Anxiously Engaged, October 2012 General Conference

"I have in mind the charity that impels us to be sympathetic, compassionate, and merciful, not only in times of sickness and affliction and distress but also in times of weakness or error on the part of others."
 –President Monson, Charity Never Faileth, October 2010 General Conference

“When hard trials come, the faith to endure them well will be there, built as you may now notice but may have not at the time that you acted on the pure love of Christ, serving and forgiving others as the Savior would have done. You built a foundation of faith from loving as the Savior loved and serving for Him. Your faith in Him led to acts of charity that will bring you hope.”

–President Eyring, Mountains to Climb, April 2012 General Conference

“The love the Savior described is an active love. It is not manifested through large and heroic deeds but rather through simple acts of kindness and service.”
–Elder Ballard, Finding Joy Through Loving Service, April 2011 General Conference

“When this pure love of Christ—or charity—envelops us, we think, feel, and act more like Heavenly Father and Jesus would think, feel, and act. Our motivation and heartfelt desire are like unto that of the Savior.”

 –Elder Ballard, Finding Joy Through Loving Service, April 2011 General Conference

“As we seek the Lord’s help and in His strength, we can gradually reduce the disparity between what we say and what we do, between expressing love and consistently showing it, and between bearing testimony and steadfastly living it.”
–Elder Bednar, More Diligent and Concerned at Home, October 2009 General Conference

“Brothers and sisters, I love you. President Thomas S. Monson and the Brethren love you. Far more importantly, your Father in Heaven loves you. I have tried to speak today of love—real love, true love, respect for it, the proper portrayal of it in the wholesome societies mankind has known, the sanctity of it between a married man and woman, and the families that love ultimately creates. I’ve tried to speak of the redeeming manifestation of love, charity personified, which comes to us through the grace of Christ Himself.”  
–Elder Holland, Place No More for the Enemy of My Soul, April 2010 General Conference