alone, they turn their backs in aversion.’”

He said:

“The speculative theologians have followed one path in establishing the Maker’s existence: inferring from things that come into being a Maker who brings them into being. The ancient philosophers have followed another path: inferring from the contingency of contingent beings a determinant that gives preponderance to one of the two alternatives. Each claims that his inference yields necessary, self-evident knowledge.”

He said:

“I say: what temporal origination attests to, or indicates after the premises have been established, falls short of what the human innate disposition attests to: one’s own need for a Governor who is the ultimate recourse for every need. One therefore turns to Him in longing and does not turn away from Him, finds sufficiency in Him but cannot do without Him, directs oneself toward Him and does not shun Him, and seeks refuge in Him amid hardships and grave concerns. For one’s own need is clearer to oneself than the need of an external contingent being for the Necessary Being,