33 The human person: with his openness to truth and beauty, his sense
of moral goodness, his freedom and the voice of his conscience, with
his longings for the infinite and for happiness, man questions himself
about God’s existence. In all this he discerns signs of his spiritual soul.
the soul, the “seed of eternity we bear in ourselves, irreducible to the
merely material”,9 can have its origin only in God.
