Justice is holiness, and to hunger and thirst after it is the surest sign we can have that God is with us. We can never in this life be certain that all will end well, because we ourselves are so unreliable, but this is the nearest approach to certainty we can make; for it shows that God's grace is still flowing and that we are corresponding with it. Still, there are many degrees of hunger and thirst. Some, like holy David, pant for the living God as the hunted hart after the waterbrooks; others take it more quietly. So by the greater or less intensity of our desires we can measure our progress.
-- Barraud,
Meditations
