Hearing - From my desk

On my desk I have a copy of selected writings of Saint Bernard of Clairvaux.  Tonight I pick up the volume and find the following statement from Bernard:

"The voice of the Lord offers and presents itself to all men, proposing itself even to the unwilling soul."

And further,

"Nor do we have much difficulty in hearing this voice; the difficulty is rather in stopping our ears from hearing it."   From the Sermon On Conversion: A Sermon to Clerics.

Bernard of Clairvaux from Wikimedia Commons