QUOTATION: Revelation

God wants to come to men through men.

--Pope Benedict XVI, “The Ministry and Life of Priests”, Pilgrim Fellowship of Faith

QUOTATION: The Church's Role

The Church does not change God’s revelation, but attempts to change us so we can live it.

--Cardinal Timothy Dolan, blog, October 21, 2014

QUOTATION: Studying Sacred Truth

The more you devote yourself to the study of the sacred utterances, the richer will be your understanding of them, just as the more the soil is tilled, the richer the harvest.

--St. Isidore of Seville

QUOTATION: The Man Who Disdains Revelation

A man who fancies he can find out truth by himself, disdains revelation. He who thinks he has found it out, is impatient of revelation. He fears it will interfere with his own imaginary discoveries, he is unwilling to consult it; and when it does interfere, then he is angry.

--Blessed John Henry Newman, “The Self-Wise Enquirer”, Parochial and Plain Sermons, Volume 1.

QUOTATION: Faith and Certainty

Faith has two peculiarities;--it is most certain, decided, positive, immovable in its assent, and it gives this assent not because it sees with the eye, or sees with the reason, but because it receives the tidings from one who comes from God.

--Cardinal Newman, Faith and Private Judgment

QUOTATION: Of Faith

For this reason the Fathers of the Vatican Council laid down nothing new, but followed divine revelation and the acknowledged and invariable teaching of the Church as to the very nature of faith, when they decreed as follows: "All those things are to be believed by divine and Catholic faith which are contained in the written or unwritten word of God, and which are proposed by the Church as divinely revealed, either by a solemn definition or in the exercise of its ordinary and universal Magisterium" (Sess. iii., cap. 3).

--Pope Leo XIII, Satis Cognitum, On the Unity of the Church, 1896.