A man was meant to be doubtful about himself, but undoubting about the truth; this has been exactly reversed. Nowadays the part of a man that a man does assert is exactly the part he ought not to assert—himself. The part he doubts is exactly the part he ought not to doubt—the Divine Reason.
G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy, 1908
Do we trust ourselves above "Divine Reason". Long ago Pilate asked the question, "What is truth?" (John 18:38). Pilate asked a good question and he asked the right person. But, good questions fall short if we fail to listen for the answer. It turns out the answer led to the question. Apparently, Jesus' words provoked the question. Jesus said, "Everyone who is of the truth listens to my voice". Today, it seems that we are too quick to listen to our own voices and ignore the truth of God, what Chesterton called "Divine Reason".
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- Paul Metler, Ph.D.
- Knoxville, Tennessee, United States
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