A Mediaeval Mystic

"My God," exclaimed one, "would I were as holy as that priest!" "Nay, for my part," returned the other, "I would not be in his shoes for all the wealth of the world. I should never know a day's pleasure on earth." "Then you know nothing of the delights which God bestows, or of the delicious savour of the Holy Ghost," thought Ruysbroeck to himself, for he happened to overhear the words, and he proceeded tranquilly on his way.