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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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"In actual fact, the justice of God is the truth of God at work. It is the divine Architect's measuring mind tracing in creative lines the pattern of all that is….This divine mortising of the universe into a whole with order is the creative justice of God."
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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 see in the darkness if we will look through the eyes of God."
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"The natural inclination of every creature is an inclination to good."
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"In us, as in all creatures, perfection is reached by greater and greater complexity with more and more perfect order; the enriched powers and smooth precision of cooperation give a created image of the absolute simplicity that is divine richness. Created organization is the best possible reflection of divine unity."
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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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"To know something of ourselves is already to know a great deal about God, for we are made in His image."
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"Every detail of all the universe, every moment of every life, every hair of every head are all orderly parts arranged from eternity in the mind of God….All creation is God's work, a work intelligently done, and so planned, seen ahead of time."
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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 characteristic note of all goodness is its desirability; its demand is for love, which is no more than the recognition of the heart-filling character of goodness."
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"Man is free. He is not the helpless slave of biology, or psychology, or sociology."
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"Echoes of our living ring down the valleys of the lives of others like the voices of distant bells, quietly, impartially, implacably reaching out to the most secluded, almost forgotten hamlets of humanity."
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"Our happiness or misery is a matter of the objects of our loves."
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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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"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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"The great truths that must flood the mind of humanity with light are the limitless perfection of God and the perfectibility of humanity."
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"Man's intellect and will are tendencies toward universal truth and universal good."
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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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"Love builds on justice or it is not love at all."
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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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"There are no areas of anarchy in nature; no successful secession from the divine government of the world."
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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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"Our hearts are made for goodness, as the eye is made for color and the ear for sound."
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"The world is built on truth and filled with goodness."
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