CONTRA FATUM

"[...]human nature is not sufficient in any way to seek for God and to find Him in His pure nature, unless it is helped by the God who is object of the search. And He is found by those who, after doing what they can, admit that they need Him, and shows Himself to those to whom He judges it right to appear, so far is it is possible for God to be known to man and for the human soul which is still in the body to know God." (Con. Cel. VII,42)

"[...]if we understand the words of which we know as applying to everything, we know of many characteristics which may be predicated of God. For He possesses virtue and blessedness and divinity. But if anyone were to understand in a more transcendent sense the words of which we know, since all that we know is inferior to God as He really is, it is not wrong that we also should accept the view that God has no characteristics of which we know. The attributes of God are superior to any which are known not only to human nature, but even by the nature of beings who haven risen beyond it." (Con. Cel. VI,62)