| Author Quoted | William of St. Thierry |
| Title Quoted | Speculum Fidei |
| Date (Year/Month/Day) | 1948/03/04 |
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| Quotation | Nos adoramus quod scimus. [We adore what we know.] I wonder if William of St. Thierry quotes that. He ought to. The passage in his Speculum Fidei [The Mirror of Faith] I just read, about how faith penetrates the sacraments of visible things and seizes the res sacramenti [the matter of the sacrament] by the understanding which is a gift"”an experienc"”sensus amoris illuminatus [the sense illuminated by love]"”all this fits in with that Gospel and could be a commentary on it. |
| Quotation Source | Entering the Silence: Becoming a Monk and Writer. The Journals of Thomas Merton, Volume 2, 1941-1952.; Edited by Jonathan Montaldo. / San Francisco : Harper Collins. 1996, p. 176 |
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