Faith

You cannot argue, or study, or reason,

or hypnotize, or whip yourself into faith.

Faith is a gift of God.

When anyone instructs you in Christian doctrine,

he does not give you faith.

He is only a spiritual agriculturist,

tilling the soil of your soul,

uprooting a few weeds,

and breaking up the clods of egotism.

It is God Who drops the seed.

 

Venerable Fulton J. Sheen

from his book, Go to Heaven