Thomas Aquinas

You don't settle for half an answer. Where others have long since scrolled on, you keep digging, until it holds. Thomas was just the same. His fellow students called him the dumb ox because he kept silent and listened; his teacher foretold that this silence would one day fill the whole world. His family locked him in a tower for a year to turn him from the mendicant order. In vain. He wrote the Summa theologiae, the mightiest edifice of thought the West has known, and knelt before the tabernacle night after night, because he knew where the answers came from. At the end of his life, so tradition tells us, he laid down his pen: beside what he had seen, all he had written was straw. Thought and adoration are no contradiction. Perhaps not for you either?