Faith

Faith is a matter of both the intellect and the will.
~Fr. John Laux, M.A.



Faith is an act of the understanding adhering to Divine Truth by command of the will moved by the grace of God.
~ St. Thomas

The Night Has a Thousand Eyes

The night has a thousand eyes,

And the day but one;

Yet the light of the bright world dies

With the dying sun.

The mind has a thousand eyes,

And the heart but one;

Yet the life of a whole life dies

When love is done.

~Francis William Bourdillon

The Famous Dilemma

If the thing believed is incredible, it is also incredible that the incredible should have been so believed. Here we have three incredible things, which nevertheless have come about.
1) It is incredible that Christ should have risen in the flesh, and with that flesh ascended into heaven.
2) It is incredible that the world should have believed a thing so incredible.
3) It is incredible that men, destitute of nobility and rank, numbers and skill,should have been able so effectively to persuade the world, and even the learned men in it.
Of these three incredibles, our opponents refuse to believe the first; the second they are forced to believe; and how that second came about they cannot say unless they believe the third....If our opponents do not believe that the Apostles worked miracles to prove the Resurrection and Ascension of Christ, this one tremendous miracle suffices for us: that the world believed the message of the Apostles without miracles.
~ St. Augustine