Fides Et Ratio
On the Relationship Between Faith and Reason

Official Documents
Encyclical Letter of the Supreme Pontiff John Paul II
To The Bishops of the Catholic Church
Reproduced with Permission

Faith and reason are like two wings on which the human spirit rises to the contemplation of truth; and God has placed in the human heart a desire to know the truth—in a word, to know himself—so that, by knowing and loving God, men and women may also come to the fullness of truth about themselves (cf. Ex 33:18; Ps 27:8-9; 63:2-3; Jn 14:8; 1 Jn 3:2).

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