To “hunger and thirst for righteousness” is to want to be helped and healed to the extent of renewing the mind. If a person is in the gutter, the only way he can get out of the gutter is to look up and reach for something higher. He can be helped. He can rise out of the gutter of life, but first he must begin thinking “out-of-the-gutter” thoughts. This is true at every level of human experience. If a person is ill in mind or body, before he can get out of the experience of sickness, he must begin to think out of it. He must look up. He must entertain the possibility of something different in
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