Listening to Tradition, William of St. Thierry

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Consider, brethren, the circumstances of your own calling. Where is the wise man among you? Where is the scribe? Where is the philosopher of this world? Although there are among you some wise men it is by the means of simple men that he added the wise to your ranks, he who of old subjected the kings and the philosophers of this world to himself by means of fishermen.

William of St. Thierry, The Golden Epistle