“ I was led by the spirit of ambition and immersed myself entirely in the waves of the world. I put God, the Church and my Order behind me and set myself to gather what riches I could, rather than to take what God sent. Forgetting those things which were behind, I reached forth (but not as the Apostle did) to those things which were before. (Phil. iii, 13) … Ambition made me drunk, and the flattering promises of our Prince overthrew me.”
― The Making of the Middle Ages
― The Making of the Middle Ages
“Meditation turns from its purgatory role to recognize in self-knowledge and in the mind's images of the external world the general essences in which all things have their being.”
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― Saint Anselm: A Portrait in a Landscape
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