Certain interior dispositions are necessary if we are to make good use of the great means which the Church proposes to all…: (1) purity of heart; (2) simplicity of spirit; (3) profound humility; (4) love of recollection and perseverance in prayer; (5) fervent charity… Evidently the principal conditions ordinarily required for contemplation are not,as a rule, lacking in generous interior souls, even if they are living in the world and are unable to fall back on the silence and solitude of the cloister. Like Saint Catherine of Siena, they can build an interior cell in their hearts and find God there… in contemplative orders and in fervent communities devoted both to contemplation and to action, and also in Christian marriage when it is truly what it ought to be.
Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange OP (1877–1964)