One way of doing things as God wishes is to do them in charity. (…) But do you know what I mean by doing things in charity? It means to do things in God, for God is charity; quite simply, to do them for God; it means doing them in God's grace, for sin separates us from the charity of God. [p. 77]

(St Vincent de Paul. From Jacques Delarue, The Holiness of Vincent de Paul, Geoffrey Chapman Ltd, London 1960, 132 pp)