There
is a world of difference between knowing about God through study and knowing
God through love—as great as a difference between a courtship carried by mail
and one by personal contact. Many skeptical professors know the proofs of the
existence of God better than some who say their prayers; but because the
professors never acted on the knowledge which they had, because they never
loved the God whom they knew by study, no new knowledge of God was given to
them. They liked to talk about
religion but did nothing about it,
and their knowledge remained sterile as a result.
--Archbishop
Fulton J. Sheen, Peace of Soul, 1949
