I don't know where I'd be without it:
Religiousness represents the loftiest expression of the human person, because it is the culmination of his rational nature. It springs from man's profound aspiration for truth and is at the basis of the free and personal search he makes for the divine.
...[W]e tend to enter the world of religion as we try to exhaust and reach the limits of human reason and feelings. Religion comes as a possible consequence of our quest for truth.
This, of course, presumes that we consistently try to reach the edges of reason. The problem often is that we get stuck along the way and simply get contented with something, if not material then ideological.
The search for truth leads us to spiritual and supernatural realities, and ultimately to God. We cannot be confined to a material and temporal world.
Something in us strongly tells us there's a lot more beyond what we simply see and even understand.
...this innate tendency of ours for the spiritual and supernatural realities, though felt in varying degrees, does not invent these realities. ... [I]t simply means we have been made to discern these realities.
Another corollary would be that the heavy problems and crises we have in many fronts can only mirror a sad state of affairs where many of us do not go all the way in developing ourselves so as to reach the culminating religious part of our life.
When reason is made the ultimate source of knowledge, the final arbiter of what is good and bad, we are in for some disaster. Our reason can only be a discoverer, a transmitter and processor of truth. It cannot be the source of truth. It abuses itself when it considers itself as truth's ultimate author and creator..." read more
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