Thursday of Lent Week 3

"The soul that loves God [finds] its rest in God only. First detach from yourself the outward bonds, then strive to bind your heart to God. To be detached from matter is prior to being bound to God. When a child has been weaned, bread is given him as food. And a man who wishes to become excellent in God, has first to wean himself from the world, as a child is weaned from his mother's breasts" (from The Mystical Treatises of Isaac of Niniveh, Homily 4, 40).