And because each Person of the Trinity is God we can worship each without falling into the error of idolatry, that is, of offering to anyone except God the worship which is his due alone.  For the Father is by himself God, the Son by himself God, and the Spirit by himself God, and yet there are not three gods but only one God.  But though the threefold goodness and generosity of the three Divine Persons is the support and inspiration of all those souls who have experienced it, yet the fact and truth of the Trinity itself puzzles our minds.  The soul – the spiritual part of us – receives it with joy, the mind – the intellectual part – with perplexity.

But the very perplexity has its purpose and its value in helping to sift the nominal from the actual follower of Christ.  For these difficulties can help in proving the reality of our faith.  Humble disciples have their perplexities, but they do not lessen their love and devotion for God.  They are well content to accept them trustfully and gladly, for they see how presumptuous and arrogant it is for anyone to imagine that they can fully comprehend the Nature and Being of the Infinite and Eternal God.  And the more we learn of his Universe which he has made, so much the more obvious does this truth become.