"He who insists on hearing God himself shows that what he really desires is not to believe, but to know; not to obey, but to react to his own experience. It is entirely fitting and proper that man hear his God through his fellow men, for all lives are inextricably interwoven into the one great community of human existence. No one life is self-sufficient. My existence draws on the core of my being but simultaneously on others in order to exist. Plantlike, we sprout from our own seed, but we grow by feeding upon other growth. In the same way, we arrive at truth through personal recognition; the 'ingredients' which go into that recognition, however, are brought us by others. Man is humanity's way to God, and it befits us that God's word personally penetrate each of our hearts, but that it be brought to us by others. God's word through the lips of man: that is the law of our religious life."
Romano Guardini, The Lord (1954), 251.
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