From an essay by Romano Guardini, Italian Catholic apologist from the mid-twentieth century:
"Blessed indeed are 'those who have not seen, and yet have learned to believe!". Those who ask for no miracles, demand nothing out of the ordinary, but who find God's message in everyday life. Those who require no compelling proofs, but who know that everything coming from God must remain in a ultimate suspense, so that faith may never cease to require daring. Those who know that the heart is not overcome by faith, that there is no force or violence there, compelling belief by rigid certitudes. What comes from God touches gently, comes quietly; does not disturb freedom; leads to quiet, profound, peaceful resolve within the heart.
And those are called blessed who make the effort to remain open-hearted. Who seek to cleanse their hearts of all self-righteousness, obstinacy, presumption, inclination to "know better". Who are quick to hear, humble, free-spirited. Who are able to find God's message in the gospel for the day, or even from the sermons of preachers with no message in particular, or in phrases with no quality of charismatic power about them, or in the happenings of everyday life which always end up in the same way: work and rest, anxiety -- and then again some kind of success, some joy, an encounter, and a sorrow."
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