All Quotes By Tag: Magisterium

“Putting down the book, I said: “Listen, it revolts me to think that God sent His Son to say to us: ‘I am the way, the truth, and the life,’ with the fine result then that all of us find ourselves in the situation of those blind men, each with a wretched little fragment of the truth in his hand, each fragment different from the others. We know the truth of the faith only by analogy, yes; but blind to this degree, no! It seems to me unworthy both of God and of our reason!” This unexpected theology based on elephants’ tails and backs did not completely convince my guest, but it shook him, making him say: “Well, nobody had ever said this to me!”