Authority that is not confirmed by true reason seems weak. Whereas true reason does not need to be confirmed by any authority.
Johannes Scotus EriugenaChrist wears "two shoes" in the world: scripture and nature. Both are necessary to understand the Lord, and at no stage can creation be seen as a separation of things from God.
Johannes Scotus EriugenaObserve the forms and beauties of sensible things and comprehend the Word of God in them. If you do so, the truth will reveal to you in all such things only He who made them.
Johannes Scotus Eriugena