Eros of Our Spirit

Michael Paul Gallagher writes in his book Faith Maps: Ten Religious Explorers from Newman to Joseph Ratzinger (New York/Mahwah: Paulist Press, 2011) 151: "Quite recently close friends of mine remarked that their small daughter had become a 'specialist in the interrogative'! She had discovered 'What' as in 'what is that?' before moving on to her current favourite word, 'Why?' Such simple words open a whole universe. Questioning expresses, as Lonergan liked to say, the eros of our spirit, our innate drive to know. Concerning faith there are hosts of important questions and a long inheritance of spiritually nourishing answers. Above all enjoy and embrace your questions. You have to let them come alive before the answers can make sense."