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The fulfilment that is being in love with God is not the product of our knowledge and choice. It is God’s gift.

Bernard Lonergan

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  Thoroughly understand what it is to understand, and not only will you understand the broad lines of all there is to be understood but also you will possess a fixed base, an invariant pattern, opening upon all further developments of understanding.

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  No matter what your logic is, if it is coherent, you can develop a technique to express it.

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  Discovery is new beginning. It is the origin of new rules that supplement, or even supplant, the old.

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  Total surrender to the demands of the human spirit: be attentive, be intelligent, be reasonable, be responsible, be in love.

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  It dismantles and abolishes the horizon within which our knowing and choosing went on, and it sets up a new horizon within which the love of God transvalues our values and the eyes of that love transform our knowing.

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  There too his responsibility is greatest. There there occurs the emergence of his existential subject, finding out for himself that he has to decide for himself what he is to make of himself.

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  Genius is creative. It is genius precisely because it disregards established routines, because it originates the novelties that will be the routines of the future. Were there rules for discovery, then discoveries would be mere conclusions.

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