Thursday, February 19, 2009

Sometimes I'm really glad I did my homework.

"The human spirit is revealed by this analysis as having an infinite thirst for truth and an infinite capacity for truth, an infinite dynamism toward truth. We can keep on asking questions and keep on receiving answers, but it does not shut us down; rather, it keeps awakening us further. One of the worst sins persons can commit is to stop asking questions, because then they are prematurely dead inside; they have quenched the spirit. The questioning of our dynamic spirit reveals that we are thirsty for the truth and that we have a capacity for it that does not ever get filled up. Now at this point we raise the question: Are human beings ever fulfilled? Does this quest of ours for truth ever reach a resting point? Obviously not in this world. The only reality that will quench this quest of ours is God's own being which is infinite truth. Truth itself."

—From Consider Jesus: Waves of Renewal in Christology, by Elizabeth A. Johnson

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