“FINALLY, we paternally exhort all students and ministers of the Church to approach the Sacred Scriptures with ever greater affection, reverence, and piety, for their understanding will not be opened to them in a salutary and fitting manner unless they distance themselves from the arrogance of earthly knowledge and stir within themselves the holy desire for the wisdom that comes from above. Once introduced to this discipline and enlightened and strengthened by it, they will be in the best position to discover and avoid the deceptions of human science and to perceive and refer its solid fruits to the supernatural order; thus warmed, their hearts will strive more vehemently for the reward of virtue and divine love: ‘Blessed are those who investigate its testimonies and seek him with all their heart.'”
— Pope Leo XIII, Encyclical Providentissimus Deus; November, 1893
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