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January 5, 2009
water and wine
Knowledge by itself puffs up the heart into pride, but mix it with charity and then it turns into edification. This knowledge by itself is only cold insipid water, and therefore if they were willing to offer it humbly to our Lord and prayed him for his grace, he would with his blessing turn the water into wine. That is to say, he would turn insipid knowledge into wisdom, and the cold naked reason into spiritual light and burning love by the gift of the Holy Spirit.
Walter Hilton - The Scale of Perfection
Posted by amin at January 5, 2009 1:52 PM