lumen fidei - 4
Faith is not like a blind leep or subjective incommunicable feelings. It is too powerful for us to manufacture ourselves. It lights up everything. Without it all other ways to the truth show their limitations.
It is not arbitrary. It is an encounter with a personal love which exists before us and which is real enough that we can lean on it for strength.
It sheds light on past. Pain and suffering are imbued with a meaning at which science and philosophy could not even guess. Even death is seen in a new light, as it were.
It sheds light on the future. It shows us the destiny which God intends for us and the way to reach it.
Reason without faith is "shadowy and and fraught with fear of the unknown" (LF 3).
Faith within us is a light so powerful as to be a star that gives light to every aspect of life.
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