INSTINCT
FOR GOD

Topics: Atheism; Childlike Faith; Creation; Creator; Evolution; God; Nature; Spiritual Perception

References: Genesis 1:1; Matthew 18:3; Mark 9:37; Luke 10:21; Romans 1:20

A little girl who grew up in an atheistic home where no one ever spoke of God once questioned her father about the origin of the world. “Where does the world come from?” asked the three-year-old.

Her father replied with a discourse that was materialistic in nature. Then he added, “However, there are those who say that all this comes from a very powerful being, and they call him God.”

At this point the little girl began to run like a whirlwind around the room in a burst of joy and exclaimed, “I knew what you told me wasn’t true; it is Him, it is Him!”

—Sofia Cavalletti, The Religious Potential of the Child (Paulist Press, 1983)