“Anyone who lives on milk, being still an infant, is not acquainted with the teaching about righteousness. But solid food is for the mature, who by constant use have trained themselves to distinguish good from evil.” (Hebrews 5:13-14 NIV)
It seems to me that there are four main things which must have a place in any full and healthy religious life: and that a remembrance of this will help us to make our own inner lives balanced and sane. We require, first, the means of gaining and holding a right attitude. Secondly, right spiritual food -- real nourishing food with a bite in it, not desiccated and predigested piety. “I am the food of the full grown,” said the voice of God to St. Augustine: “Grown and feed on Me.” Thirdly, we need an education which shall help growth; training our spiritual powers to an ever greater expansion and efficiency. Fourthly, we have or ought to have some definite spiritual work, and must see that we fit ourselves to do it.
-- Evelyn Underhill in “The House
of the Soul and Concerning the Inner Life”
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