Principles and Practices - January 23

We Must Start With God

The worship of man's spirit - of his mind and will - is of first and paramount importance. Without this, outward religion is empty ana vain. Only, therefore, where there is a true notion of God can there be true worship.

As regards his notion of God, man is not morally free. He may not accept any notion of God except the true one.

He may not fashion a God out of his own wishes and fancy, nor thus make a God of his own - as, alas! too many do nowadays.

God is not made either out of wood or stone or out of mere notions that enter a man's mind. God is a self-existing fact. To this fact man must conform all his ideas and notions of God.

-Brosman.
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From Principles and Practices
Compiled by Rev. J. Hogan of The Catholic Missionary Society
Published by Burns Oates & Washbourne Ltd., Publishers To The Holy See
Nihil Obstat; Eduardus J. Mahoney, S.T.D. Censor deputatus.
Imprimatur; Edm. Can. Surmont, Vicarius generalis.
First printed in 1930