CCC 2654

The spiritual writers, paraphrasing Matthew 7:7, summarize in this way the dispositions of the heart nourished by the word of God in prayer "Seek in reading and you will find in meditating; knock in mental prayer and it will be opened to you by contemplation."⁵ Guigo the Carthusian, Scala Paradisi: PL 40, 998PL — Patrologia Latina (Migne).