Re: M.I,5`Pers ecution ` w ho kno ws ab out it?

Nothing is seen." Then to
reply to him, "Do not despair." And he will answer that he would be glad to
find some light, but that, according to this very religion, if he believed
in it, it will be of no use to him, and that therefore he prefers not to
seek. And to answer to that: The machine.

248. A letter which indicates the use of proofs by the machine.--Faith is
different from proof; the one is human, the other is a gift of God. Justus
ex fide vivit.33 It is this faith that God Himself puts into the heart, of
which the proof is often the instrument, fides ex auditu;34 but this faith
is in the heart, and makes us not say scio, but credo.35

249. It is superstition to put one's hope in formalities; but it is pride to
be unwilling to submit to them.

250. The external must be joined to the internal to obtain anything from
God, that is to say, we must kneel, pray with the lips, etc., in order that
proud man, who would not submit himself to God, may be now subject to the
creature. To expect help from these externals is superstition; to refuse to
join them to the internal is pride.

251. Other religions, as the pagan, are more popular, for they consist in
externals. But they are not for educated people. A purel