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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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"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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"Just as an apple tree works to produce fruit, so man works to produce good acts." |
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"The government of the world is the execution of the Providence of God." |
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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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"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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"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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"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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"Man is free. He is not the helpless slave of biology, or psychology, or sociology." |
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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 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 do indeed become the thing we love." |
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"The light of reason is a reflection of the light of the eternal law." |
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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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"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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"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 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 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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"There are no areas of anarchy in nature; no successful secession from the divine government of the world." |
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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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"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 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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"Faith is a habit which perfects humanity's reason or intellect." |