A definition of "belief," from a discussion of the Latin phrase "credo" that opens the Apostle's Creed, as found in Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger's Introduction to Christianity:
"Belief operates on a completely different plane from that of 'making' and 'makability.' Essentially, it is entrusting oneself to that which has not been made by oneself and never could be made and which precisely in this way supports and makes possible all our making."
More, on why we need church:
"The difference in religious gifts that divides men into 'prophets' and hearers forces men into speaking to and for one another. The program of the early Augustine, 'God and the soul -- nothing else,' is impracticable; and it is also unchristian. Ultimately religion is not to be found in the solitary path of the mystic, but only in the community of proclaiming and hearing. Man's conversation with God and men's conversation with one another are mutually necessary and interdependent."
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