James Alison on the meaning of faith

It is not that faith imposes on us a list of things that must be held to be true independently of reality. It is rather that faith enables us not to be frightened of being drawn into inhabiting a larger world than we could have imagined. Faith dares us into exercising our reason because it enables us to trust that over time, and through that use of our reason, God will show us what is true and how it is good for us.

James Alison, “The Fulcrum of Discovery or: how the ‘gay thing’ is good news for the Catholic Church,” available here.