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Most of us pass our lives away eating the husks of life. Within them, beneath the rind, is a sweeter fruit than ever we have tasted. How shall we find it unless the rind is peeled away by Wisdom greater than our own, by a Love whose ways are strange and bewildering to us.
— St. Therese of Lisieux
Even though the natural light of the human mind is inadequate to make known what is revealed by faith, nevertheless what is divinely taught to us by faith cannot be contrary to what we are endowed with by nature. One or the other would have to be false, and since we have both of them from God, he would be the cause of our error, which is impossible.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
If our opponent believes nothing of divine revelation, there is no longer any means of proving the articles of faith by reasoning, but only of answering his objections--if he has any--against faith. Since faith rests upon infallible truth, and since the contrary of a truth can never be demonstrated, it is clear that the arguments brought against faith cannot be demonstrations, but are difficulties that can be answered.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
that after a long time, and with the admixture of many errors. Whereas man's whole salvation, which is in God, depends upon the knowledge of this truth. Therefore, in order that the salvation of men might be brought about more fitly and more surely, it was necessary that they should be taught divine truths by divine revelation. It was therefore necessary that besides philosophical science built up by reason, there should be a sacred science learned through revelation.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Objection 3: Further, it is written (1 Cor. 13:12): "We see now through a glass in a dark manner; but then face to face.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
I answer that, It was necessary for man's salvation that there should be a knowledge revealed by God besides philosophical science built up by human reason.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
It was necessary for man's salvation that there should be a knowledge revealed by God besides philosophical science built up by human reason.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
It's going to be used in the last days to get people to come against Christ, and that's the issue: they come against the Lord Jesus Christ. And in this new book, we show Christ coming to settle that big issue.
— Tim LaHaye
'Who Is This Man?' is about the impact of Jesus on human history. Most people - including most Christians - simply have no idea of the extent to which we live in a Jesus-impacted world.
— John Ortberg
Most people really have no problem with the idea of a creator God. Their question is just what is this God like, how can I know about him, how can I know him.
— Eric Metaxas
In the Gospels—Jesus is the prophet to his people. In Acts and the Epistles—Jesus is the priest for his people. In the book of Revelation—Jesus is the King over his people.
— Norman Geisler
when truth goes, the authority of the gospel is undermined, because the gospel tells us all about the Truth.
— Norman Geisler