"All perfection in this life is accompanied by a measure of imperfection, and all our knowledge contains an element of obscurity. A humble knowledge of oneself is a surer road to God than a deep searching of the sciences."
"For such is the weakness of human nature, alas, that evil is often more readily believed and spoken of another than good. But perfect men do not easily believe every tale that is told them, for they know that man's nature is prone to evil, and his words to deception."
"Whoever puts his confidence in men or in any creature is very foolish."
"If you have no care for you own soul who will have care for you in time to come?"
"If you rely on your own reasoning and ability rather than on the virtue of submission to Jesus Christ you will but seldom and slowly attain wisdom."
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What does science give you? Obscure answers that someone learned from a book, that someone before them who learned from another book just to write in their own book. But that's besides the point I guess. It's empty nonetheless. So you look to science for answers to the questions of the universe, but what do those answers really mean to mankind? What do they really give mankind that we didn't have before? Can one honestly say they have faith in science? What does that even mean? Is science supposed to give purpose or meaning that makes a life worth living? I never thought science was an alternative to faith but I guess it was easier for me to submit to because it wasn't submittal at all really. I could carry on with my normal life without truely thinking about the life I was actually living. But faith holds you accountable to living a life for something greater than yourself and trying to live like that which is greater than yourself. This is much more difficult than living a life in which you look to science's explanations of the formation of the universe, because your individual purpose has no relation. One can live with no remorse and in your mind never really feel empty. But maybe seeing it in someone else is what makes one take a second look at themself. If you don't like what you see - change they way you think, change the way you live, live for something greater than yourself.
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