We must believe that there is no real conflict between the Rational and the Mystical: but in a given period now one, now the other, will be what the world actually needs to be reminded of – I mean the unbelieving world: and one or the other will usually be the bridge to faith. Thus you and I came to it chiefly by Reason (I don’t mean, of course, that any one comes at all but by God’s grace – I am talking about the route not the motive power) but dozens of other converts, beginning with St. Paul, did not.

– Letter to the Catholic convert Dom Bede Griffiths, April 24, 1936