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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"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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"Our will, the faculty of our desire and our love, is in ceaseless pursuit of goodness."
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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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"Justice is the necessary foundation of peace and order in human society."
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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 government of the world is the execution of the Providence of God."
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"Our happiness or misery is a matter of the objects of our loves."
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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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"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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""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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"We do indeed become the thing we love."
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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 are no areas of anarchy in nature; no successful secession from the divine government of the world."
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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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"No one need ever be ignorant of God. Every single thing in the universe is plainly signed with the name of the divine Artist; and each thing has a distinct truth to tell about its Maker."
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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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"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 divine will must be seen first in its primary and eternal activity – as a roaring flame warming all the halls of eternity with the fervor of its love. We must see, in other words, something of the sublime attractiveness of the divine will before we can begin to see rightly its mysterious working with our own will, and with the world."
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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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"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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"It would be more accurate to say that God contains us rather than that we have God within us."
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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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"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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"The world is a mirror flashing back different facets of divine beauty, and all that is, by that very existence, shouts aloud God's name: He Who Is."
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