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1828 The practice of the moral life animated by charity gives to the Christian the spiritual freedom of the children of God. He no longer stands before God as a slave, in servile fear, or as a mercenary looking for wages, but as a son responding to the love of him who "first loved us": ¹⁰⁶

If we turn away from evil out of fear of punishment, we are in the position of slaves. If we pursue the enticement of wages, . . . we resemble mercenaries. Finally if we obey for the sake of the good itself and out of love for him who commands . . . we are in the position of children. ¹⁰⁷

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PART THREE: LIFE IN CHRIST

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CHAPTER ONE: THE DIGNITY OF THE HUMAN PERSON

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ARTICLE 7: THE VIRTUES

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II. THE THEOLOGICAL VIRTUES

Notes for the above paragraph:

106 Cf. I Jn 4:19.

107 St. Basil, Reg. fus. tract., prol. 3: PG 31, 896 B.

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