Augustine of Hippo

We have heard, and it is clear; we had gone outside, we have been sent within. "O would that I had found," you said, "some high and lonely mountain! For, I believe, because God is on high, he hears me from a high place." Because you are on a mountain, do you think that you are near God and that you are heard quickly, as if shouting from nearby? He dwells on high, but "he looks on the lowly." "The Lord is near." To whom? Perhaps to the high? "To those who are contrite of heart." It is a wondrous thing: he both lives on high and draws near to the lowly. "He looks on the lowly, but the high he knows from afar." He sees the proud from afar; the higher they seem to themselves, so much of the less does he approach them.