Librorum Moralium continuatio a libro XVII usque ad finem
| Authors | Gregory the Great, Pope St., O.S.B. (480-547) Migne, Jacques-Paul, 1800-1875 |
| Series | Patrologiae Cursus Completus: Series Latina [76.0] |
| Publisher | Garnier Fratres |
| Published | 22 gen 1800 |
| Date | 22 ago 2018 |
| Languages | lat |
| Identifiers | url: http://patristica.net/latina/, uri: https://archive.org/details/patrologiaecursu76mign, oclc: 1050246069 |
| Formats | DJVU |
Description
The § on the illuminative stage of the spiritual life in Abbé Columba Marmion's Le Christ idéal du moine, which my friend read >1× when he was in the monastery and recommended to me years ago, quotes on p. 357 from St. Gregory the Great's Moralia on Job 31:35 ("Quis mihi tribuat auditorem, ut desiderium meum audiat Omnipotens…"), PL 76 col. 238:
43. Non verba sed desideria cordis Deus exaudit. — Notandum quoque est quod nequaquam dicitur preces, sed desiderium meum Omnipotens audiat. Vera quippe postulatio non in oris est vocibus, sed in cogitationibus cordis. Valentiores namque voces apud secretissimas aures Dei non faciunt verba nostra, sed desideria. Æternam etenim vitam si ore petimus, nec tamen corde desideramus, clamantes tacemus. Si vero desideramus ex corde, etiam cum ore conticescimus, tacentes clamamus.
St. Catherine of Siena is another who said in her Dialogue ** God is the "adempitore de’ sancti desidèri "
🇬🇧 transl.: Moralia: Morals on the Book of Job