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my soul thirsteth for God

"[1] As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God.
[2] My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God?" Psalm 42:1,2

"But love is the end, the summit, and the mistress of all virtues. For this reason, Moses writes: "And now, Israel, what does the Lord your God require of you, but that you. . .love him, and serve him, with all your heart, and with all your soul!?" (Deut.10:12) Therefore to love, corresponds the essential reward in the heavenly homeland, namely, the vision of God. For we will see God more clearly and with more delight the more we now desire more ardently to see him, because love of the way causes desire. But desire lays bare and opens the affection of the lover to the receiving of the beloved: indeed, what else is desire but for the opening up of the appetite disposing one to the receiving of the beloved? How gloriously, clearly, and intimately will he, who so desires him now, see God in the heavenly homeland as a hart drinking from the streams! Let us therefore love and with the greatest devotion desire God, sublime and holy, the Father of lights, the fount of sweetness, the principle of all decorum, in whom is immeasurable beauty, infinite felicity, most superlatively sweet peace, the most full life, interminable wisdom, and the abundance of all desire without measure: and all these things are not in him anything other except the most simple Being, pure Unity, and substance above all substances, and subsistence wholly unknown." Denis The Carthusian pg.333 '"Dominus Illuminatio Mea" Commentary On The Davidic Psalms', Volume II Psalms 26-50 By Denis The Carthusian Translation & Introduction by Andrew M. Greenwell

12:27 p.m. - 2022-08-27

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