“THE Word of God is living and effective, so it enters the soul, awakens it from its lethargy, stirs, softens, and wounds the heart — that hardened heart, that heart of stone, ever sick. It also begins to uproot and destroy, to build and plant, to water what was arid, to illuminate what was in darkness, to open what was closed, to burn what was frozen, to straighten what was crooked, and to smooth the crooked paths; so that then the soul blesses the Lord, and all its faculties praise His holy name.” 

— St. Bernard, Doctor of the Church (+1153), Serm. LXXIV

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