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We can believe only if we want to. The determining factor is not the truth of the content but the sense that it is good to believe. --The function of the will in belief. Neither the act of belief itself nor the believed content is what is willed. The primary act of the will: to love. "We believe because we love." The believer affirms the witness and seeks communion with him, by virtue of which he then sees with the eyes of the knower.
Chapter three outline, Table of Contents, Joseph Pieper, Faith
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Pentecost: day one hundred. &.
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