It is because St.Augustine is the man of the "Confessions" that he is also the creator of "The City of God." The regenerative work of St.Francis was accompanied by an unremitting life of penitence and recollection.

Fox and Wesley, abounding in labours, yet never relaxed the tension of their soul's effort to correspond with a transcendent Reality.

These and many other examples warn us that only by such a sustained and double movement can the man of the Spirit actualize all his possibilities and do his real work.

He must, says Ruysbroeck, "both ascend and descend with love."[149] On any other basis he misses the richness of that fully integrated human existence "swinging between the unseen and the seen" in which the social and individual, incorporated and solitary responses to the demands of Spirit are fully carried through.

Instead, he exhibits restriction and lack balance.