Rowan Williams’ beautiful description of the spirituality of St. Gregory of Nyssa:
"If the Christian life is a journey into God, it is a journey into infinity – not an abstract ‘absoluteness’ but an infinity of what Gregory simply calls ‘goodness,’ an infinite resource of mercy, help and delight. And because of its limitless nature, this journey is always marked by desire, by hope and longing, never coming to possess or control its object… Faith is always, not only in this life, a longing and trust directed away from itself towards an object to which it will never be adequate, which it will never comprehend.
"The pilgrimage must begin, then, with the stirring of desire."
(from The Wound of Knowledge, p. 65-66)
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