Reason is in fact the path to faith, and faith takes over when reason …

Thomas Merton
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Reason is in fact the path to faith, and faith takes over when reason can say no more. ✨ Thomas Merton (2002). The Ascent to Truth, p.39, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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