"SOBER INEBRIATION"
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Sober inebriation... comes not from drinking a new type of wine but from enjoying God (paraphrased). --St. Bernard
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The "sober inebriation" of traditional Christianity is a steady transformation of our will, an increasing awareness of higher truths and delights; an over all change in the nature and quality of our spiritual experience which occurs along the path to union with God through Christ: it is an alternative to our empty pursuits and the ultimate vanity of this passing world�