Faith

Faith is a quality of the person, a perfection of the mind and will that adhere to the light of God… Faith is a passive or receptive virtue and at the same time it is active. It communicates divine light to us and also leads us into the darkness of mystery.

Servais Pinckaers, O.P.

Theology

Theology is the name we give to the efforts of our minds and hearts to catch up with the work of the Living God in the world. Or… theology is the name we give to the effort of our minds and hearts to grasp the world conjured by God and construed by Scripture. Or… theology is our successfully imagining the world imagined by Scripture, which reveals the world imagined by God.

• • Luke Timothy Johnson

Analogy

The mystery that is beyond God himself,
The Ineffable,
That gives its name to everything,
Is complete affirmation, complete negation,
Beyond all affirmation and all negation.

Dionysius the Areopagite