What shall we be like when we come to see God face to face? All the psalmist can say is “They will be inebriated by the rich abundance of your house.” When he saw people taking too much wine and losing their senses, then he knew how to express the experience with God. When we experience the joy of being with God, the human mind will almost vanish. It will become drunk with the rich abundance of God. Let those who are thirsty now continue to hope. The day will come when they will be intoxicated by the reality [of God]. Until then, let them continue to thirstily hope.

—Augustine, Commentary on Psalm 35.14