Two things make our delight pure. One is turning of sensuality to
the skill [intelligence]; for when any is turning to delight of his
five wits [senses], all soon uncleanness enters into his soul. Another
is, that the skill meekly be used in ghostly things, as in meditations
and orisons, and looking in holy books. Therefore the delight that was
naught of unordained stirring, and meekly has stirring in Christ, and
in which sensuality is turned to skill, all set and used to God, makes
a man's soul in rest and secureness and aye to dwell in good hope, and
to be paid with all God's gifts, without grumbling or heaviness of
thought.
Richard Rolle: Desire and Delight.
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