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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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"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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"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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"Man's intellect and will are tendencies toward universal truth and universal good."
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"We cannot retain our freedom if we cut ourselves off from God."
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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 is free. He is not the helpless slave of biology, or psychology, or sociology."
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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 hearts are made for goodness, as the eye is made for color and the ear for sound."
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"The government of the world is the execution of the Providence of God."
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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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"Faith is a habit which perfects humanity's reason or intellect."
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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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"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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"Our happiness or misery is a matter of the objects of our loves."
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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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"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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"We can see in the darkness if we will look through the eyes of God."
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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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"Love builds on justice or it is not love at all."
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"Our will, the faculty of our desire and our love, is in ceaseless pursuit of goodness."
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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 know something of ourselves is already to know a great deal about God, for we are made in His image."
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"The world is built on truth and filled with goodness."
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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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"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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