As God does nothing without good reason, it follows that human nature must contain the disposition necessary for the attainment of that destiny. Man must be capable of knowing God, of adoring him and loving him above all things, of incorporating himself into the Church and finding himself at home there. From our psychological point of view one must consequently suppose, a priori, that man possesses a functional adaptation which renders the execution of this programme not only possible, but natural and free. Tertullian's succint phrase, anima naturaliter christiana, means this, that everything in man is designed to blossom into Christianity. No less concise is St Augustine's famous sentence, "Thou hast made us, O Lord, for thee, and our heart is troubled until it rest in thee." God is then, not only ontologically, but also psychologically,
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