For to say "Look to God" is not helpful without some instruction as to what this looking involves: it might very well be said that one can "look" and still sacrifice no pleasure, still be the slave of impulse, repeating the word 'God' but held in the grip of every passion and making no effort to master any. Virtue, advancing towards the Term and, linked with thought, occupying a Soul, makes God manifest: 'God' on the lips, without good conduct of life, is just a word.
Plotinus, Enneads, II.9
