III. The Characteristics of Faith
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Believing is possible only by grace and the interior helps of the Holy Spirit.
But it is no less true that believing is an authentically human act. Trusting
in God and cleaving to the truths he has revealed is contrary neither to human
freedom nor to human reason. Even in human relations it is not contrary to our
dignity to believe what other persons tell us about themselves and their
intentions, or to trust their promises (for example, when a man and a woman
marry) to share a communion of life with one another. If this is so, still less
is it contrary to our dignity to “yield by faith the full submission of…
intellect and will to God who reveals”,26 and to share in an
interior communion with him.
- SECTION ONE “I BELIEVE” – “WE BELIEVE”
- CHAPTER THREE MAN’S RESPONSE TO GOD
- Article 1 I BELIEVE
- III. The Characteristics of Faith
- Article 1 I BELIEVE
- CHAPTER THREE MAN’S RESPONSE TO GOD
From The Catechism of the Catholic Church – rosary.team
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