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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"Justice is the necessary foundation of peace and order in human society."
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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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"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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"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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"Man's intellect and will are tendencies toward universal truth and universal good."
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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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"The light of reason is a reflection of the light of the eternal law."
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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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"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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"Man is free. He is not the helpless slave of biology, or psychology, or sociology."
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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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"We do indeed become the thing we love."
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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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"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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"Faith is a habit which perfects humanity's reason or intellect."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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 happiness or misery is a matter of the objects of our loves."
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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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"Our will, the faculty of our desire and our love, is in ceaseless pursuit of goodness."
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