Quote from Letter 9.148 to Secundinus, an anchorite monk. May 599
I have received the letter of your Beloved, and in my senses it tasted as if seasoned with the honey of love. Oh, with what great breath of life is it filled, as your words poured out by the grace of the Holy Spirit! In them no cultured eloquence appeared, nor any pompous vocabulary, but containing only fundamental truth and charity, they breathed your love of the heavenly homeland in everything that they said.
I have received the letter of your Beloved, and in my senses it tasted as if seasoned with the honey of love. Oh, with what great breath of life is it filled, as your words poured out by the grace of the Holy Spirit! In them no cultured eloquence appeared, nor any pompous vocabulary, but containing only fundamental truth and charity, they breathed your love of the heavenly homeland in everything that they said.
Cited from: The Letters of Gregory the Great, trans. John R.C. Martyn (Toronto: PIMS, 2004), II, 630.
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