For the nearer any one approaches to God, the more he is il… - Bonaventure

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For the nearer any one approaches to God, the more he is illuminated, and therefore the more clearly does he see the majesty and mercy of God.

Bonaventure

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Saint Bonaventure (b.1221, d.15 July 1274), born Giovanni di Fidanza, was an Italian medieval Franciscan, scholastic theologian and philosopher. The seventh Minister General of the Order of Friars Minor, he was also Cardinal Bishop of Albano. He was canonised on 14 April 1482 by Pope Sixtus IV and declared a Doctor of the Church in the year 1588 by Pope Sixtus V. He is known as the "Seraphic Doctor". Many writings believed in the Middle Ages to be his are now collected under the name Pseudo-Bonaventure.

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Alternative Names: Giovanni di Fidanza • Giovanni Fidanza • Saint Bonaventure • Saint Bonaventura • Saint Bonaventure O.F.M. • Seraphic Doctor • St. Bonaventura • shën Bonaventura da Bagnoregio

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Contemplation deepens the more we feel the working of God’s grace within our hearts, and the better we learn to encounter God in creatures outside ourselves.

Life of St Francis of Assisi, TAN Books, 2010.

But the soul cannot have any virtue if God is not loved with all the heart; for from that love flows the fulness of all grace, and without it no grace can flow into the soul, nor can it abide in it.

For the nearer any one approaches to God, the more he is illuminated, and therefore the more clearly does he see the majesty and mercy of God. - Bonaventure

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