St.Bonaventure

Bonawentura ((święty ;)

Ignatius C. Brady

'But if you wish to know how these things come about ask grace not instruction, desire not understanding, the groaning of prayer not diligent reading, the Spouse not the teacher, God not man, darkness not clarity, not light but the fire that totally enflames and carries us into God by ecstatic unctions and burning affections. This fire is God and his furnace is in Jerusalem...' --Bonaventure, 1217-1274

Bonaventure

Dana Kraft

Weighty, as you might imagine, but I like to read source material, so I enjoyed it, especially: 
- the translation notes on the Latin word "legenda", which didn't mean back then what it means to us today
- the 'biography" of Francis of Assisi, although it's definitely an "authorized" biography
- the end of "The Soul's Journey into God", which has some thought-provoking stuff about the limits of human rationality

Quote from "Soul's Journey":
"But if you wish to know how these things come about,
ask grace not instruction,
desire not understanding
the groaning of prayer not diligent reading,
the spouse not the teacher..."

Bonaventure

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