The first malady requiring to be cured is a spiritual gluttony which seizes on consolations with insatiable avidity, a refined sensuality which finds it most delicate aliments in the sweetness of devotion.  God now comes and puts the invalid on a diet, and if necessary on a starvation regime, in order to weaken and extinguish this evil by the withdrawal of its nourishment, and in order that the soul may learn in time to dispense with enjoyment, to seek God purely, and to be less dependent on the emotions.  –Abbot Vitalis Lehodey ‘Holy Abandonment’