Questions of faith are not like riddles or crossword puzzles: with things of this sort it may take one some time to find the solution, but once found, everything is clear and simple. It is completely different with The Faith. Here we have, not human truth which men can state and understand, but God's truth, which goes far beyond any statement or understanding of man's . The Faith never becomes clear. The Faith remains obscure. Not until we enter into glory will it be otherwise: "WE see through a glass in a dark manner: but face to face . Now I know in part: but then I shall know even as I am known" (1st Cor. 13:12). Only when we are in glory will it be otherwise. Until then there will always be more difficulties coming up, more doubts coming up: there are bound to be. Doubt is the shadow cast by faith. One does not always notice it, but it is always there, though concealed. At any moment it may come into action. There is no mystery of the faith which is immune to doubt.
~Hans Kung~
Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it spring the issues of life
~Proverbs 4:23~
For I know the thoughts that I have toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you to an expected end.
~Jeremiah 29:11~
Do not seek to understand that you might have faith; seek faith that you might understand.
~St. Augustine~
The great religious texts throughout the ages wouldn't always be exhorting us to do good if they didn't recognize that we're inclined, so often, to do evil.
~Micheal Levine~
No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration
~Cicero~
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