“The person, however, who has once tasted virtue and has come to understand its nature by his own experience of the good is no longer the kind of person who must be dragged away from his passionate attachment to evil by necessity and warning and compelled to look to virtue. On the contrary, he has an excessive thirst f…”
Gregory of Nyssa, 4th c. — ON THE INSCRIPTIONS OF THE PSALMS 1:5.40-41
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2My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God?
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1As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God.
— Psalms 42:2 —
3My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say unto me, Where is thy God?
4When I remember these things, I pour out my soul in me: for I had gone with the multitude, I went with them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, with a multitude that kept holyday.