Synergy and the light within

 

A lamp cannot be kept burning without oil, nor can the light of spiritual gifts continue to shine unless one inwardly sustains it with actions and thoughts consonant with it.  For every spiritual gift requires a corresponding inner quality in the recipient to feed it spiritually as though with oil, thus preserving its presence.  Unless the light of spiritual knowledge present in God’s gifts is fed with divine intellections, it will go out.