Guigo II > Quotes

“Why do you hover in the mid-course?”
― Guigo, The Meditations of Guigo, I: Prior of the Charterhouse (Cistercian Studies Series)

“From all of this we can conclude that reading without meditation is sterile, that meditation without reading is prone to making mistakes, that prayer without meditation is lukewarm, that meditation without prayer is fruitless, and that a prayer made with piety leads to contemplation; the latter, without prayer, is obtained only rarely, as by a miracle.”
― Guigo II, Lectio Divina: The Ladder of Paradise, an early guide to Lectio Divina [Translated]