Man can know his world without falling back on revelation; he can live his life without feeling his utter dependence on supernatural powers.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The supernatural is the natural not yet understood.
Man tells his aspiration in his God; but in his demon he shows his depth of experience.
Man lives in a world of meaning.
What then do you call your soul? What idea have you of it? You cannot of yourselves, without revelation, admit the existence within you of anything but a power unknown to you of feeling and thinking.
Man is a physical and spiritual epitome of the Universe.
Seemingly, man has learned to live without God, preoccupied and indifferent toward Him and concerned only about material security and pleasure.
Man, double-faced by nature, is placed by Revelation under a sharp, precise external rule, controlling his actions and his thoughts.
Salvation cannot come without revelation. Men of the present time testify of heaven and hell, and have never seen either; and I will say that no man knows these things without this.
People talk about revelation, and say it has ceased; but what ignorance it bespeaks, when man knows not the least thing on earth without revelation.
Man lives in a world of surmise, of mystery, of uncertainties.