Ways And Paths

Perfice gressus meos in semitis tuis, ut non moveantur vestigia mea. Viae Dei sunt praecepta levia. Semitae Dei sunt strictiora mandata, in quibus pauci ambulare possunt. In via Dei ambulat qui proximo suo malum non facit. In semitia Dei ambulat qui etiam malum inferentem diligit. Qui vero adhuc ambulare nescit in semita, saepe movetur a via, quia saepe charitatem deserere cogitur qui non didicit adhuc diligere, nisi eum a quo amatur. Hugo De Sancte Victore, Miscellanea, Liber II, Caput XX, De Viis et Semitis Dei Source: Migne PL 177.599c-d

Perfect my walking in your paths, so that my feet do not stumble. 1 The ways of God are the lighter precepts, the paths of God are the stricter commands in which few are able to walk. He walks in the way of God who does no evil to his neighbour. He walks in the path of God who loves him who does him evil. However, he who does not yet know what it is to walk in the path, often stumbles on the way, since  he is often driven to abandon love because he has not yet learnt how to love anyone unless they love him. Hugh Of Saint Victor, Miscellanea, Book 2, Chapter 20, On the Ways and Paths of God 1 Ps 16.5