It is just it should be so with them, that since they inordinately seek and follow their pleasures, they should not satisfy them without confusion and uneasiness.
Oh! how short, how deceitful, how inordinate and filthy, are all these pleasures!
Yet through sottishness and blindness men understand this not; but like brute beasts, for a small pleasure in this mortal life, they incur the eternal death of their souls.
But thou, my son, Go not after thy concupiscences, but turn away from thy own will. Ecclesiastes xviii.
[USCCB: Sirach xviii. 30.]
Delight in the Lord, and he will give thee the requests of thy heart. Psalms xxxvi.
[USCCB: Psalms xxxvii. 4.]
5. For if thou wilt be delighted in truth, and receive more abundant consolation from me, behold it is in the contempt of all worldly things: and the renouncing all those mean pleasures shall be thy blessing, and an exceeding great comfort to thy soul.
And the more thou withdrawest thyself from all comfort from things created, the more sweet and the more powerful consolation shalt thou find in me.