---thinking about the Lord's Supper we will celebrate Sunday...
Men cannot exceed in the degree of [spiritual] appetites. There is no such thing as any inordinateness in holy affections; there is no such thing as excess in longings after the discoveries of the beauty of Christ Jesus, or greater degrees of holiness, or the enjoyment of communion with God…. Persons may to their utmost indulge their hungerings after righteousness, and after the Word of God, and after all spiritual pleasures. They may indulge those appetites as much as they will in their thoughts and in their meditations and in their practice. They may drink, yea, swim in the rivers of spiritual pleasure…. We ought to take all opportunities to lay ourselves in the way of enticement with respect to our gracious inclinations. Thus you should be often with God in prayer, and then you will be in the way of having your heart drawn forth to him. We ought to be frequent in reading and constant in hearing the Word. And particularly to this end, we ought carefully and with the utmost seriousness and consideration attend the sacrament of the Lord’s Supper; this was appointed for this end, to draw forth the longings of our souls towards Jesus Christ.
—Jonathan Edwards, from a sermon, “Spiritual Appetites Need No Bounds”
