MY WAY OF LIFE, THE SUMMA SIMPLIFIED FOR EVERYONE
Walter Farrell and Martin J. Healy
The authors present St. Thomas Aquinas' 'Summa Theologica' in a form which everyone can understand.
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"We can see in the darkness if we will look through the eyes of God."
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"Faith is a habit which perfects humanity's reason or intellect."
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"Good is an expanding force, capable of opening up the soul to the limitless vistas of the Divine Being."
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"God is indeed not far from any one of us; rather, He is in us, as He is in every created thing, profoundly, intimately, more present to us than we are to ourselves."
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"To look at creatures is to marvel at the perfection of detail and symmetry of organization in the executed plan of the divine architect; infinite wisdom achieving the patterns of divinity, dazzling reflections of divinity glittering before the eyes. A glance ahead, down the road along which each creature rushes so intently, shows us the fixed purpose of all nature: to get closer to God, to struggle to that individual perfection which is a better imaging of the infinite perfection, to come to the beginning and the goal of all that is."
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"We do indeed become the thing we love."
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"We are, in a very true sense, wrapped around with God, penetrated by divinity, held up every instant by divine power that saturates all of reality and exceeds it…God is everywhere in the world as the soul is everywhere in the body; where God is not, nothing is."
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"Our happiness or misery is a matter of the objects of our loves."
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"Every least perfection in the lowest of creatures tells us something of God, for the perfections of all the universe are in God from whom they came."
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"There is but one Governor of the world, as there is but one Architect and one Creator."
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"The whole world is ruled by the Providence of God….It is the Divine Mind which directs all the activities and movements of all creatures."
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"We cannot retain our freedom if we cut ourselves off from God."
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"Eternity is a cloak wrapped about and enclosing yesterday, today and tomorrow in one moment that never ends."
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"The natural inclination of every creature is an inclination to good."
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"It would be more accurate to say that God contains us rather than that we have God within us."
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"The world moves on, and everything in it, from sunrise to sunset, from new moon to full moon, from century to century, as if it had intelligence; as an arrow flies to its mark as though it had eyes. The arrow is in fact directed by eyes, but by the eyes and hands of the archer; the world too is directed by an intelligence, by the intelligence of God."
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"In a very real sense, there is a kind of knowledge of God buried deep in every human being, as deep as the demand for happiness."
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"The world is built on truth and filled with goodness."
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"Our will, the faculty of our desire and our love, is in ceaseless pursuit of goodness."
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"We can open our eyes to the sharp hints of divine glory in the eager promise of spring, the austere cleanliness of winter, or the lush richness of late summer's fulfillment;…The minute details of nature's organization can stagger our minds with their multitude and complexity and so give us an insight into the horizons of divine wisdom."
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"The goodness of God keeps the wheels of the universe whirring;…We set our feet on a road because there is goodness at the end of it; we keep our hands at a task because the goodness at the end of it makes all the labor well worthwhile; our minds probe into every corner of the universe because our hearts are hungry for the goodness to be discovered in the universe and its Maker."
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"Man's intellect and will are tendencies toward universal truth and universal good."
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"His image is in us, however deeply buried under the debris of our living, and heaven is never beyond the reach of our fingers."
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"There are no areas of anarchy in nature; no successful secession from the divine government of the world."
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"Nature bends all its energy to a return to God, becoming more like Him as it sharpens the divine image by reaching to its natural perfection."
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