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1		"The successive phases of Spirit that animate the Nations…are themselves only steps in the development of the one Universal Spirit, which through them elevates and completes itself to a self-comprehending totality." Georg Hegel (1770-1831),

2		"Only God, only an infinite being, can satisfy man's infinite craving for all the good there is."

3		"In Aristotle's cosmology, the circular motions of the celestial spheres, and through them all other cycles of natural change, are sustained eternally by the prime mover, which moves all things by the attraction of its perfect being."

4		"Whatever exists...has some share in the effulgent beauty of the One."

5		"In the view of Nicolas of Cusa, the mystery of God's infinity is best expressed by affirming that in God all contradictions are somehow reconciled."

6		"Spinoza defines God as 'Being absolutely infinite, that is to say, substance consisting of infinite attributes, each one of which expresses eternal and infinite essence."

7		"Being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions." John Locke (1629-1695)

8		"The ancient philosophers, constrained as it were by the truth, when they asserted an infinite principle, asserted likewise that there was only one such principle." Thomas Aquinas

9		"The ultimate measure of justice in all human institutions and acts, as well as in the characters of men, is not itself a man-made standard, but rather a natural principle of justice, holding for all men at all times everywhere."

10		"The good of nothing less than the whole collectively or of all distributively can be taken as the common or general good."

11		"Nothing is future to God. Everything that has ever happened or ever will is simultaneously together in the eternal present of the divine vision."

12		"Although the essences or forms of things are many, yet the truth of the divine intellect is one." Thomas Aquinas

13		"Immortality is, in a way, enjoyed in this life, for it is a present participation in eternity through the mind's knowledge of God."

14		"Love is all opposites – the only reality."

15		"God…is intimately present to our minds, producing in them all that variety of ideas or sensations which continually affect us." George Berkeley (1685-1753), 'The Principles of Human Knowledge'

16		"The ancients did not doubt that men could choose and, through choice, exercise some control over the disposition of their lives. Tacitus, for example…claims that 'the wisest of the ancients leave us the capacity of choosing our life."

17		"From self-evident propositions, by necessary consequences, as incontestible as those in mathematics, the measures of right and wrong might be made out, to any one that will apply himself with the same indifferency and attention to the one as he does to the other of these sciences." John Locke (1629-1695)

18		"Providence connects each one with its proper order." Boethius, quoted by Thomas Aquinas

19		"Charity, according to its very nature, causes peace; for love is a unitive force." Thomas Aquinas

20		"Man dies in the flesh to be reborn in the spirit. Man, composite of soul and body, perishes as do all things which are subject to dissolution; but the soul itself, a simple spiritual substance, is immortal, living on after its union with the body is dissolved."

21		"If we attentively consider the constant regularity, order, and concatenation of natural things, the surprising magnificence, beauty, and perfection of the larger, and the exquisite contrivance of the smaller parts of the creation, together with the exact harmony and correspondence of the whole,….I say if we consider all these things, and at the same time attend to the meaning and import of the attributes, one, eternal, infinitely wise, good, and perfect, we shall clearly perceive that they belong to the Spirit who 'works all in all', and 'by whom all things consist.'" George Berkeley (1685-1745), 'The Principles of Human Knowledge'

22		"A natural teleology seems to imply that every natural thing is governed by an indwelling form working toward a definite end, and that the whole of nature exhibits the working out of a divine plan or design."

23		"Love is everywhere in the universe – in all things which have their being from the bounty and generosity of God's creative love and which in return obey the law of love in seeking God or in whatever they do to magnify God's glory."

24		"All things partake of The One in absolute dependence."

25		"In the realm of Being, the trace of The One establishes reality: existence is a trace of The One." Plotinus