Christian Obedience, By Its Very Nature, Has

The First Attempt At A Response: There Must Have Been A Fall, A Decline, And The Road To Salvation Can Only Be The Return Of The Sensible Finite Into The Intelligible Infinite.

There Is A Moment When The Interior Light Of The "eyes Of Faith" Becomes One With The Exterior Light That Shines From Christ, And This Occurs Because Man's Thirst, As He Strives And Seeks After God, Is Quenched As He Finds Repose In The Revealed Form Of The Son.

Wonder — The Enthusiastic Ardor For The Sublimity Of Being, For Its Worthiness To Be An Object Of Knowledge — Promises To Become The Point Of Departure For Genuine Insight Only Where It Has Reached The Stage In Which The Subject, Overwhelmed By The Object, Has, As It Were, Fused Into A Single Point Or Into Nothing.

St. Paul Would Say To The Philosophers That God Created Man So That He Would Seek The Divine, Try To Attain The Divine. That Is Why All Pre-christian Philosophy Is Theological At Its Summit.

We No Longer Dare To Believe In Beauty And We Make Of It A Mere Appearance In Order The More Easily To Dispose Of It.