Friday, March 03, 2017

Out of fuel …

ANTHONY BURGESS CENTENARY: FAITH AND THE FUEL OF CONVICTION OF A CONFIRMED CATHOLIC WRITER. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)
 The archbishop, [Burgess] wrote, “left me to struggle with my soul in my own way, knowing that my intellectual engine was in order; what it lacked was the fuel of conviction”.
It is faith one needs — the strength to bear up under doubt — not conviction.

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