“Dearest son,” he said, “anything this poor sinner can do for your soul will be done joyfully. What is distressing you? Yearnings?” he asked, almost with yearning himself. “The yearnings of the flesh?” “No,” I replied, blushing, “if anything the yearnings of the mind, which wants to know too many things …” “And that is bad. The Lord knows all things, and we must only adore His knowledge.”
