we are fallen fools, most of our philosophy is not "the proper use of human reason" but the improper use of human reason.

If our faith rests on God's veracity, it has an absolute and eternally unshakable foundation. If it rests on our own mind, it is as secure as sand. Does your faith look like a castle or a sand castle?

Principles without facts are empty, but facts without principles are blind.

Of course we should use all our powers, of mind and will and imagination, but not trust in them, for that is trusting in ourselves.

T]o scorn the dictate of reason is to scorn the commandment of God (I-II,19,5).

the mere necessity brings with it a dispensation, since necessity knows no law. . . .

Doesn't certainty about a universal negative require omniscience? Don't you have to have knowledge of everywhere to know that there is no X anywhere?

After a lifetime in academia, I have discovered that there is only one requirement for someone to actually believe any of the one hundred most absurd ideas possible for a human mind to conceive: you must be an intellectual. Some ideas are so ridiculous that only a Ph.D. could believe them.

Hence the fact that some happen to doubt about articles of faith is not due to the uncertain nature of the truths, but to the weakness of human intelligence;

God, I don't know whether you exist or not. Maybe I'm praying to nobody, but maybe I'm praying to you. So if you are really there, please let me know somehow, because I do want to know. I want only the Truth, whatever it is. If you are the Truth, here I am, ready and willing to follow you wherever you lead.

Reason and truth themselves that are in question? Socrates never visited these terrifying heights and depths; they are distinctively modern and post-Christian. Socrates was a simple virgin; Christians are like married women (married to God), and modernists are like divorcees.

Science asks what and how, philosophy asks why, myth and religion ask who. Who's