24 January 2021
On Holy Scripture
The Bible is a scented
garden, delightful, beautiful. It enchants our ears with birdsong in a sweet,
divine and spiritual harmony, it touches our heart, comforts us in sorrow,
soothes us in a moment of anger, and fills us with eternal joy. Let us knock at
its gate with diligence and with
perseverance. Let us not be discouraged from knocking. The latch will be
opened. If we have read a page of the Bible two or three times and have not
understood it, let us not be tired of re-reading it and meditating on it. Let
us seek in the fountain of this garden `a spring of water welling up to eternal life.' [John 4:14] We shall taste a
joy that will never dry up, because the
grace of the Bible garden is
inexhaustible.
Saint John of Damascus
(8th Century)
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