The Ladder of Monks Quotes

“I pray the Lord to weaken today and remove tomorrow all that obstructs the soul’s contemplation.”
― Guigo II the Carthusian, The Ladder of Monks

“O God, good, sweet and gentle, tender friend and wise counselor, strong help! Foolish and reckless is the man who rejects you and expels such a humble and compassionate guest from his heart! Unhappy and damnable exchange: he drives out his Creator to welcome impure and perverse thoughts; he opens the dear retreat close to the Holy Spirit, recently perfumed with celestial joys, to low and sinful thoughts; he profanes with adulterous desires what remains of the Bridegroom’s visit. O dreadful impiety!”
― Guigo II the Carthusian, The Ladder of Monks