“[S]t. Gregory says that there is this difference between the pleasures of the body and those of the soul, that the former we desire with great impatience when we have them not, and when we have got them, we make but little account of them. …. But with spiritual things it is just the other way: when we have them not, then they disgust and nauseate us: but when we have them and possess them, then we value them more, and desire them more, and all the more the more we taste them.”

— Practice of Perfection and Christian Virtues by Alphonsus Rodriguez, S.J. (1526-1619)

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