The ultimate reason of things must lie in a necessary substance, in which the differentiation of the changes only exists eminently as in their source; and this is what we call God.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
This is why the ultimate reason of things must lie in a necessary substance, in which the differentiation of the changes only exists eminently as in their source; and this is what we call God.
God is the universal substance in existing things. He comprises all things. He is the fountain of all being. In Him exists everything that is.
At the heart of every being lies creation's dream of a principle that will one day give organic form to its fragmented treasures. God is unity.
Poor human reason, when it trusts in itself, substitutes the strangest absurdities for the highest divine concepts.
The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.
Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.
Everything is subject to change except God Himself.
God should not be called an individual substance, since the principal of individuation is matter.
From the smallest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have comes from one attribute of man - the function of his reasoning mind.