"Taste and see that the Lord is good"

This morning I stumbled across these words by Jerome (c 347-420) against Pelagius on our need for divine aid to do what is good.

St Jerome in his study (1480)

"He is always a giver, always a bestower. It is not enough for me that he has given me grace once; He must give it me always. I seek that I may obtain, and when I have obtained I seek again. I am covetous of God's bounty; and as He is never slack in giving, so I am never weary in receiving. The more I drink, the more I thirst. For I have read the song of the psalmist: O taste and see that the Lord is good (Psalm 34:8). Every good thing that we have is a tasting of the Lord. When I fancy myself to have finished the book of virtue, I shall then only be at the beginning."

St Jerome, Letter 133 (AD 415)