Concepts create idols; only wonder grasps anything. - St Gregory of Nyssa

Thursday, January 31, 2013

Complicated

This is just so good, read it all at Fr. Stephen's blog, Glory to God for All Things.



... Faith is not a matter of “belief,” an act of intellectual willing. Faith is a perception of things that do not necessarily appear obvious. In the language of Scripture – “faith is the evidence of things not seen.” But the perception of faith is similar to the perception of objects beneath the surface of a lake. If the surface is disturbed, the objects disappear. The objects do not go away – but we can no longer perceive them.

In a world of manifold complication – the surface of the water is rarely still.

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