Invocation
If I were to ever write a book, I might want to use a similar prayer as the following for the preface. Sadly, Ronald Knox did not live to complete this particular book...
(Addressed to God)
“I know well that in your sight every thought of the human mind is full of ignorance and misapprehensions. But some of us—and perhaps, at the roots of our being, all of us—cannot forego that search for truth in which full satisfaction is denied us here. We apprehend that there is no encounter with reality, from without or from within, that does not echo with your foot-fall. We scrutinize the values, and can give no account of them except as a mask of the divine. Something of all these elusive considerations finds a place in my book. And you, who need nobody’s service, can use anybody’s. So I would ask that, among all the millions of souls you cherish, some few, upon the occasion of reading it, may learn to understand you a little, and to love you much.”
~Ronald Knox
(Addressed to God)
“I know well that in your sight every thought of the human mind is full of ignorance and misapprehensions. But some of us—and perhaps, at the roots of our being, all of us—cannot forego that search for truth in which full satisfaction is denied us here. We apprehend that there is no encounter with reality, from without or from within, that does not echo with your foot-fall. We scrutinize the values, and can give no account of them except as a mask of the divine. Something of all these elusive considerations finds a place in my book. And you, who need nobody’s service, can use anybody’s. So I would ask that, among all the millions of souls you cherish, some few, upon the occasion of reading it, may learn to understand you a little, and to love you much.”
~Ronald Knox
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