"Yet whatever come from the Supreme Truth cannot be false, and what is not false cannot be repudiated by any necessary reason. Just as our Faith cannot be proved by necessary reasons, because it exceeds the human mind, so because of its truth it cannot be refuted by any necessary reason. So any Christian disputing about the articles of the Faith should not try to prove the Faith, but defend the Faith. Thus blessed Peter (1 Pet 3:15) did not say: "Always have your proof", but "your answer ready," so that reason can show that what the Catholic Faith holds is not false."
─De Rationibus Fidei (Reasons for the Faith Against Muslim Objections), Chap. 2. How to argue with unbelievers.
● "THE articles of faith cannot be proved demonstratively, because faith is of things "that appear not" (Heb 11:1). But that God is the Creator of the world: hence that the world began, is an article of faith; for we say, "I believe in one God," etc. And again, Gregory says (Hom. i in Ezech.), that Moses prophesied of the past, saying, "In the beginning God created heaven and earth": in which words the newness of the world is stated. Therefore the newness of the world is known only by revelation; and therefore it cannot be proved demonstratively."
─Summa Theologica, I, Q. 46, A. 2.
~St. Thomas Aquinas
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| The Triumph of St. Thomas Aquinas. By Benozzo Gozzoli. Tempera on panel, 1468-1484. Musée du Louvre, Paris, France. |
