Therefore, best of friends, setting all else completely aside, let us strive with all our powers to satisfy God first, without which it is impossible for anything to satisfy us, for us to satisfy others, or for us to satisfy ourselves in any way at all.

~ Marsilio Ficino

If only all might be hushed, sense impressions, the soul itself, all imagery, all symbols, all things transient, then we might hear the very voice of the eternal, and if that experience were prolonged, we would indeed enter into the joy of our Lord.

~ St Augustine

And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

~ Romans 12, 2