Are you paying attention?

Faith is the adequate attention to an appeal from the goodness that reveals itself in feelings of the heart and soul rather than through perceptions of the mind and senses.

Love creates hope, which engenders faith and inspires belief: There is no other course by which we arrive at The Truth; All of scientific fact is based on the assumptions of people who could not have been born nor persevered more than a short time but for the force of love and the workings of charity. Just as all invention starts from ideas, all creation proceeds from a spiritual existence into a material manifestation. Anyone who argues that spiritual existence is only a pale reflection of a concrete reality is met by the unavoidable notion that there are no a priori definitions: This line of reasoning only leads us to resign ourselves to knowing nothing; What is the superior position, to know nothing, or to believe in something?

Surely ignorance can't be a want of knowing, for even the beast in the wilderness without instruction demonstrates knowledge and derives fruit from it; ignorance must be a refusal to believe which is caused by a lack of love and trust.

It would seem wholly better to know nothing and believe in those few things within our emotional reach that explain our world for us than to have an intellectual grasp that renders our lives meaningless.

-- Ernie.