All others might be tolerated but not for love’s sake or with hope for some future reconciliation. By contrast, those who have been transformed by the Holy Spirit and who, as a result, have a share in God’s love will proceed with no equivalent restraints, or so Christians confess. All that they do will be reordered by this love, which means that friendship with God and neighbor will be the final end of their every act of tolerance and the deferred substance of their hope. As with natural, ordinary loves, the transformations that charity effects might be so thorough, so complete, in the lives of some that their tolerance is transfigured into forbearance. In that event, every act of patient endurance that accords with the norms and requirements of a temporal relationship will be offered directly for the sake of charity’s ends. And as with ordinary love, charity that forbears as transfigured tolerance will retain traces of the virtue it transforms and aspects of the relationship it transcends in its willingness to defer a portion of the end it intends to a future horizon.