Thus It Is Necessary To Commence From

The One, The Good, The True, And The Beautiful, These Are What We Call The Transcendental Attributes Of Being, Because They Surpass All The Limits Of Essences And Are Coextensive With Being.

Thus It Is Necessary To Commence From An Inescapable Duality: The Finite Is Not The Infinite.

There Is A Moment When The Interior Light Of The "eyes Of Faith" Becomes One With The Exterior Light That Shines From Christ, And This Occurs Because Man's Thirst, As He Strives And Seeks After God, Is Quenched As He Finds Repose In The Revealed Form Of The Son.

Wonder — The Enthusiastic Ardor For The Sublimity Of Being, For Its Worthiness To Be An Object Of Knowledge — Promises To Become The Point Of Departure For Genuine Insight Only Where It Has Reached The Stage In Which The Subject, Overwhelmed By The Object, Has, As It Were, Fused Into A Single Point Or Into Nothing.

Hell Is To Be Contemplated Strictly As A Matter Which Concerns Me Alone. As Part Of The Spiritual Life It Belongs Behind The 'closed Door' Of My Own Room. From The Standpoint Of Living Faith, I Cannot Fundamentally Believe In Anyone's Damnation But My Own; As Far As My Neighbor Is Concerned, The Light Of Resurrection Can Never Be So Obscured That I Would Be Allowed Or Obliged To Stop Hoping For Him.