The sacred encounter of prayer demands the cultivation of interior dispositions, for it is a serious matter to seek God.
We have to … enter a realm of depth in faith. Entering into silence requires a great receptivity to God in his hidden mystery.
— Edith Stein

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Theology, obvi

Faces along the bar
Cling to their average day;
The lights must never go out, The music must always play;
Lest we know where we are:
Lost in a haunted wood—
Children afraid of the dark
Who have never been happy or good.
— W. H. Auden, ‘September 1939’

Voegelin cited this detail about the Thracian flute girl at the end of his study of Plato nearly 70 years ago.

Eternal Father, you have given me a share in your power and the wisdom that Christ claims as his own, and your Holy Spirit has given me the desire to love you….I know that you are moved with love at the beauty of your creation, for you have enlightened me.
- Catherine of Siena

Can confirm

You are a mystery as deep as the sea; the more I search, the more I find, and the more I find the more I search for you. But I can never be satisfied... When you fill my soul I have an even greater hunger, and I grow more famished for your light.
— Catherine of Siena

Stanton Lectures | Faculty of Divinity divinity.cam.ac.uk/stanton-lectur…

No condition of health is founded on a firmer basis than that which is acquired by the aid of health-giving nourishment. Wherefore, following the guidance of nature we are led to believe that food is our sole medicine.
— St Ambrose, Hexameron III.14

If there is to be real redemption, this earth and no other, this body and no other, must have the capacity to take God's grace into itself.
— Hans Urs von Balthasar, the Scandal of the Incarnation 13

Even dragons give praise to the Lord, because their nature and aspect, if one examines them closely, are not without presenting a certain modicum of beauty and design.
— Saint Ambrose, Hexameron II.4

Human law is law only by virtue of its accordance with right reason; & thus it is manifest that it flows from the eternal law. And in so far as it deviates from right reason it is called an unjust law; in such case it is no law at all, but rather a species of violence.
— Aquinas

[T]o choose to kill the innocent as a means to one’s ends is murder…. With Hiroshima and Nagasaki we are not confronted with a borderline case. In the bombing of these cities it was certainly decided to kill the innocent as a means to an end.
— Elizabeth Anscombe

The Word of God is His will; the work of God is nature.
– Ambrose of Milan, Hexameron I.9

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The only motive for God’s predestinating will is to communicate the divine goodness to others.
– Thomas Aquinas, Commentary on Ephesians 1.1

Reverence is the attitude that can be designated as the mother of all moral life, for in it [one] first takes a position toward the world that opens his spiritual eyes and enables him to grasp values.
— Dietrich Von Hildebrand, The Art of Living