St. Maximus the Confessor: But of all things which are good and desirable the divine is incomparably the best and the most desirable...

If a man desires something, he makes every effort to attain it. 

But of all things which are good and desirable the divine is incomparably the best and the most desirable. How assiduous, then, we should be in order to attain what is of its very nature good and desirable.

St. Maximus the Confessor