N o one ever saw God (1 Jn 4, 12). God is invisible, we must not look with eyes but with your heart . If we wanted to see the sun, remove the impediments in the eyes of the body, to be able to see the light, so if we see God, purge that eye with which God can be seen. Where is this eye? Listen to the Gospel: Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God (Mt 5, 8). No one gets an idea of \u200b\u200bGod by following the proceedings of the eyes. He would be the idea of \u200b\u200ba huge form, or may extend over a space immeasurable magnitude, as this light that hits our eyes and stretches out indefinitely as he can, or you would make God the idea of \u200b\u200ban old-looking venerable. You do not have thoughts like that. If you want to see God, you have the idea right: God is love. What face has the love? what form, such as stature, such as walking, such as hands? no one can tell . However, it has the feet, leading to the Church's hands, which give to the poor, his eyes, with which they come to know who is in need, says the psalm: Blessed is he who thinks the poor and all ' poor (Ps 40, 2). The charity has ears and speaks of the Lord: He who has ears to hear, (Lk 8, 8). These various members are not separated in different places, but who has seen the charity with the mind all at the same time. You therefore lives in charity and she will dwell in you And it remains in it and it will remain in you. And 'ever possible, or brothers, who love what one does not see? Why then, when you praise of charity, I raised up, shout, give praise? What I showed you? Have I showed some color? I have put forward gold and silver? I put the gems removed from a treasury? What I have shown great in your eyes? Perhaps that will speak to you in my face has changed? I am here in the flesh, I'm here in the same form in which I made my entrance, you are also here in the same form in which you came. But do you praise the charity and outputs in acclaim. Certainly your eyes do not see anything. But how do you like it when you praise, so I like to keep it in your heart. You see, brethren, what I mean: I urge you, as God-willing, to provide a great treasure. If you show you a pot of gold engraved, gilt, made art, and it attracted your eye and attracts the desire of your heart, and hand you'd like as well as the weight of the material and the splendor of the metal, perhaps, that each of you would say, "Oh, if I had the vase? But I'd say unnecessarily, because it was not in your power to have it. Or if you wanted it, they would think of stealing from the house of another. To you praise is made to the charity, if you like it, abbiatela, possedetela it is not necessary a steal at someone you do not think you need to buy it. It is free. Hold it, embrace it: nothing is sweeter than it. If value of this is when it is presented verbally, what will be its value when it is possessed?
( Augustine, Homilies on the first letter of John, Homily 7, No. 10)
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