God: Conferences Delivered at Notre Dame in Paris by the Rev. Père Lacordaire; Tr. from the French, with the Author's PermissionChapman & Hall, 1870 - 260 pages |
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... activity . Every being , even the most inert in appearance , is active ; it condenses , it resists foreign efforts , it attracts and incorporates to itself elements which obey it . A grain of sand is in con- must learn what being is ...
... activity . Every being , even the most inert in appearance , is active ; it condenses , it resists foreign efforts , it attracts and incorporates to itself elements which obey it . A grain of sand is in con- must learn what being is ...
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... Activity , being the permanent and common characteristic of all that is , it follows that being and activity are one and the same thing , and that we are warranted in making this defini- tion : Being is activity . St. Thomas of Aquinas ...
... Activity , being the permanent and common characteristic of all that is , it follows that being and activity are one and the same thing , and that we are warranted in making this defini- tion : Being is activity . St. Thomas of Aquinas ...
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... activity is the only action that places it in harmony with itself and with the rest of the universe . Therefore ... activity , and as God is infinite activity , it follows that in God there is infinite action , or , to speak still more ...
... activity is the only action that places it in harmony with itself and with the rest of the universe . Therefore ... activity , and as God is infinite activity , it follows that in God there is infinite action , or , to speak still more ...
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... activity . But movement supposes an object , an end to which the being aspires . I move , I run , I risk my life : Why ? What do I seek ? Apparently I seek something wanting to me and which I desire ; for if nothing were wanting to me ...
... activity . But movement supposes an object , an end to which the being aspires . I move , I run , I risk my life : Why ? What do I seek ? Apparently I seek something wanting to me and which I desire ; for if nothing were wanting to me ...
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... activity , it follows that production is the final end of activity ; that is to say of being , since being and activity are one and the same thing . But in what proportion does being produce ? Evidently in proportion to its activity ...
... activity , it follows that production is the final end of activity ; that is to say of being , since being and activity are one and the same thing . But in what proportion does being produce ? Evidently in proportion to its activity ...
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Page 248 - Keep the sabbath day to sanctify it, as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee. Six days thou shalt labour, and do all thy work: but the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thine ox, nor thine ass, nor any of thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates; that thy manservant and thy maidservant may rest as well as thou.
Page 97 - For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God. For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope. Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.
Page 236 - Let us make man to our image and likeness, and let him have dominion over the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the air, and the beasts, and the whole earth, and every creeping creature that moveth upon the earth.
Page 120 - Come, ye blessed of my Father, possess you the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. For I was hungry, and you gave me to eat; I was thirsty, and you gave me to drink; I was a stranger, and you took me in; naked, and you covered me; sick and you visited me; I was in prison, and you came to me.
Page 97 - For the creation was subjected to vanity, not of its own will, but by reason of him who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the liberty of the glory of the children of God.
Page 243 - And on the seventh day God ended His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done. Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it He rested from all His work which God had created and made.
Page 131 - I have seen all the works that are done under the sun ; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit.
Page 198 - For the word of God is living and effectual, and more piercing than any twoedged sword : and reaching unto the division of the soul and the spirit, of the joints also, and the marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
Page 133 - Jesus answered, My kingdom is not of this world. If my kingdom were of this world, my servants would certainly strive that I should not be delivered to the Jews; but now my kingdom is not from hence.
Page 42 - And there are three who give testimony in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost. And these three are one.