The Importance of Religious Self Knowledge

Moral conversion begins the life of ethical excellence and makes one fit to have the best kind of friendships. But neither intellectual nor moral conversion satisfies the deepest yearnings of the human mind and heart. Something more is needed, both as a completion and grounding of these conversions in order to bring the human person to ultimate happiness. In biblical terms, religious conversion is the replacement of one's heart of stone with a heart of flesh. With religious self knowledge comes trust in the help of the lord and hope in forgiveness. Saint monica concludes in one of augustine's dialogues, this is the happy life, the life that is perfect. And we must presume that we who are hurrying to