Catechism Paragraph 154
Part 1:
THE PROFESSION OF FAITH
Section 1: I BELIEVE - WE BELIEVE
Chapter 3: MAN'S RESPONSE TO GOD
Article 1: I BELIEVE
Section 1: I BELIEVE - WE BELIEVE
Chapter 3: MAN'S RESPONSE TO GOD
Article 1: I BELIEVE
Believing is possible only by grace and the interior helps of the Holy Spirit. But it is no less true that believing is an authentically human act. Trusting in God and cleaving to the truths he has revealed is contrary neither to human freedom nor to human reason. Even in human relations it is not contrary to our dignity to believe what other persons tell us about themselves and their intentions, or to trust their promises (for example, when a man and a woman marry) to share a communion of life with one another. If this is so, still less is it contrary to our dignity to "yield by faith the full submission of... intellect and will to God who reveals",[26] and to share in an interior communion with him.
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Dei Filius: 3: DS 3008.