Forbearance can be an act of love for God only as it extends to a neighbor whose differences require endurance. In this, forbearance exhibits the conditions of divine love in time, conditions that God's grace meets but does not deny, conditions that account for the special goodness of an act of patient endurance offered in love propter Deum. It is precisely this special goodness that makes forbearance a virtue that belongs to charity as one of its parts. And note, the claim is that forbearance is a potential part. It belongs to charity, and as part it is deficient when compared with the whole. Its act of love is offered across the differences, disagreements, and sins that divide us from each other and thus from God. Charity^ perfect act makes no such crossing; it assumes no such deficiency. As habit and act, forbearance has something in common with charity, and yet it assumes a deficit in human relations that charity need not. In this, it falls short of charity’s perfection.