Saturday, August 31, 2019

“The very first question we asked when we came into the world was the question ‘Why?’ – a question which betrays that we are all born incipient philosophers.  As children, we tear apart our toys to find out what makes the wheels go round.  As grown-ups, never having lost the desire to know the ‘Why’ and ‘Wherefore’ of things, we tear apart, by our mental analysis, the very toy of the universe to find out what makes its wheels go round.  We turn our telescopes on the sun and ask it to divulge its secrets; we ask the stars to tell us the story of their twinkling, and the very ocean to surrender the mystery of its depth.  We are incurably bent on knowing and discovering the truth of things – that is why we hate to have secrets kept from us.” Archbishop Fulton Sheen (The Catholic Hour)

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