AELW 3:155
"Although we have the Word of God in such richness, our hearts are nevertheless harder than an anvil and, like rocky soil, keep the root of the Word without sap and fruit, while the saintly patriarchs marveled at this inexpressible benevolence of God to the point of being overcome.
I myself feel in me this hardness of heart, and I hate it and also offer prayers against it every day. Just as the prophet Isaiah says (6:10): “It is a people with a heavy heart and with sleeping eyes,” so we, who have the Word in such great richness, feel that our ears and hearts are slow and our eyes heavy with sleep.
This, however, is not the fault of God, who speaks with us in a friendly manner and, as Paul says in Titus 3:4, converses with us in the most kindly fashion when He gives us the ministry of the Word, His sacraments, and His pledges of eternal grace. But we have soundly sleeping eyes and dull ears, and we despise these gifts as something ordinary and paltry. Moreover, what is far more outrageous and disgraceful, we apply ourselves meanwhile to the study of decretals and human traditions."
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