Excerpt from The Philosophy of the Christian Religion
The assertion of the unbeliever in Revelation, that the Christian builds his hopes upon a blind faith, is unjust and groundless; for no faith can grow out of a revelation that reason does not first approve. The difficulty in the way of the unbeliever is, that his reason has become incrusted with the world and lost in the labyrinth of his worldly passions, and he resists the Spirit of God, that alone can open up his reason to a sublime faith in the truth of revelation.
The aim of every one should be to discover and follow truth, and especially that truth which the Scripture has revealed to us, as paramount to all earthly considerations. Heaven itself does not begin after death, but in this life. Its germs must sprout and grow while here, in the divinest archives of the soul. "The heart sees before the head," and feels the object of its search to be among the possibilities, before it can ever be admitted to the high court of reason.
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