For such, truly, are the hearts of men, which by the nature of noble reason leap to the heights; but, driven by the wind of the evil one, they are dragged this way and that in the twisted movements of their desires.
St. Gregory The Great, Moralia 8, XVII.33 (CCSL 143, 405:4-7)
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But when pride lifts our mind, piercing love for what is highest immediately falls away from us; when, however, grace visits us from on high, at once it stirs us with tears toward its own desires.
St. Gregory The Great, Moralia 9, LVII.87 (CCSL 143, 518-519:59-61)
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Indeed this itself is among the greatest, the most precious of your gifts to me, that by the sweet taste of yourself you have awakened in me this desire for you, such that my soul refuses to be consoled unless by its satisfaction.
St. Anselm of Canterbury, Oratio 12, S III, 46:24-26
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For what is more against reason than trying to go beyond reason by reason? And what is more against faith than refusing to believe what cannot be grasped by reason?
St. Bernard of Clairvaux, Ep 190 I, 1; Sancti Bernardi Opera VIII, 18:4-6
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