First, you must be willing to lose it all

First, you must be willing to lose it all


I really think this is true and actually coincides with something I've been reading with the book "Three Ages of the Interior life; Prelude to Eternal Life".

“Faith makes us, in fact, adhere supernaturally and infallibly to what God reveals to us about his intimate life, according as the Church, which is charged with preserving revelation, proposes it to us. Infused faith belongs thus to in order immensely superior to the historical and critical study of the Gospel. As Lacordaire rightly says: ‘a scholar may study Catholic doctrine, not reject it bitterly, and may even say repeatedly: 'You are the blessed to have faith; I should like to have it, but I cannot believe.’ And he tells the truth: he wishes and he cannot (as yet), for study and good faith do not always conquered the truth, so that I may be clear that rational certitude is not the 1st certitude on which Catholic doctrine rests. This scholar therefore knows Catholic doctrine; he admits its facts; he feels its power; he agrees that there existed a man named Jesus Christ, who lived and died in a prodigious manner. He is touched by the's the plot of the martyrs, by the constitution of the Church;. He will willingly say that is the greatest phenomenon that has passed over the world he will almost say it is true. And yet he does not conclude; he feels himself oppressed by truth, as one in a dream where one sees without seeing. The day comes, however, when the scholar drops on his knees; feeling the wretchedness of man, he lifts up his hands to heaven and exclaims: ‘out of the depths I cry to the, old Lord!” At this moment something takes place in him, scales drop from his eyes, a mystery is accomplished, and he is changed. He is a man, meek and humble of heart; he can die, he has conquered the truth.'” (53–54 The Three Ages of the Interior Life; Prelude to Eternal Life.)

It's fascinating that faith has become naturalized in the modern age when Catholics understand it to be a supernatural gift given to those who are poor.