So you say faith is not enough for you and you want knowledge, too. But knowledge does not involve spiritual effort; knowledge is obvious. Faith assumes effort. Knowledge is repose and faith is motion.

Evgenij Vodolazkin
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St. Ignatius of Loyola said that the person who wants to know “without any effort or strain,” cannot truly know. God, he says, is the One who has the power to give life and to take it away. Even if He gives us a gift of knowledge, we shouldn’t expect it to come easy.

We should put effort into knowing Him and striving to do His will. Knowledge is a gift from God, but it is a gift that comes from a Person – a Person who has the power to take it away – and so we shouldn’t expect it to come easily.

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