The Love of Learning and the Desire for God Quotes

“In the Middle Ages, as in antiquity, they read usually, not as today, principally with the eyes, but with the lips, pronouncing what they saw, and with the ears, listening to the words pronounced. hearing what is called the "voices of the pages." It is a real acoustical reading.”
― Jean Leclercq, The Love of Learning and the Desire for God: A Study of Monastic Culture

“For the ancients, to meditate is to read a text and to learn it "by heart" in the fullest sense of this expression, that is, with one's whole being: with the body, since the mouth pronounced it, with the memory which fixes it, with the intelligence which understands its meaning, and with the will which desires to put it into practice.”
― Jean Leclercq, The Love of Learning and the Desire for God: A Study of Monastic Culture