“The Love of Learning and the Desire for God,” by Jean Leclercq

For the monk, everything, all things, if beautiful were worthy of sculpting into something praiseworthy for God, and as a means to draw ever deeper into God’s mysteries. But we may also take something from scholastic theology, because we seek not only to communicate to each other, we seek to communicate with the wide world, to open eyes to the glorious revelations of God all around us.