Saturday, March 1, 2025

A need for faith sooner or later?

In studying theology we end up with the end of a rope in each hand, the ropes disappearing into the darkness before us and it is only by faith that we know they are the ends of the same rope. 

I suppose an image to say that reasoning carries us so far but there is always a need for faith, sooner or later.

Comment made by the late Fr Paul O’Leary op.

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