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The Great Cloud of Witnesses · The Long Middle

Bonaventure

?–1257

Patristic / Western voice, d. ~1257

The life

Bonaventure (d. ~1257). Patristic / Western voice from the church's historical commentary tradition, present in MannaFest's quote pool with source citations. Full profile pending.

In their own words

  • “As for the inciting causes, it is added: Who had come to hear him, as regards the illumination of truth in the mind, and to be healed of their infirmities, as regards the cure of health in the flesh. And this was a right intention, …”

    Commentary on Luke, Chapter 6 · on the verse

  • “But if you ask how these things come about, ask grace, not doctrine; desire, not understanding; the groaning of prayer, not the study of reading; the Bridegroom, not the master; God, not man; darkness, not clarity; not light, but the fire that wholly inflames and …”

    Itinerarium Mentis in Deum, Chapter 7 · on the verse

  • “If you wish to be regulated according to the divine rule, take care that you be not bestial but well-ordered: that you be directed not according to the impulse of sense, but according to the judgment of reason; not according to bestial phantasms, but according …”

    Collationes de Septem Donis, Collation 8 · on the verse