I have to say that obviously it’s a good thing because your ability to reason is a reflection of God. However, you can use it for good or evil. The thoughts that help you understand, with grace, your own frailties, Christ’s Passion, and God’s amazing blessings, are good. I’m not surprised that they deepen your devotion. But when these very same meditations become infected with pride and when the educated ego starts believing in its own scholarly expertise, students fail to become humble scholars and masters of divinity and devotion, becoming arrogant scholars instead, masters of vanity and
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