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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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"Just as an apple tree works to produce fruit, so man works to produce good acts."
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"The natural inclination of every creature is an inclination to good."
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"Justice is the necessary foundation of peace and order in human society."
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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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"We cannot retain our freedom if we cut ourselves off from 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 light of reason is a reflection of the light of the eternal law."
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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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"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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"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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"There is a divine Providence, a divine government, that guides a person; there is a power greater than man that moves him precisely to his responsible mastery of his own life."
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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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"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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"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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"The allure of the good is an ennobling invitation; for it is essentially a promise that we can become a part of this loved thing or make it a part of ourselves."
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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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"Man's intellect and will are tendencies toward universal truth and universal 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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"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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"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 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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"Love builds on justice or it is not love at all."
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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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"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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"The world is built on truth and filled with goodness."
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