Chap., §
1 Bles | the image and likeness of God (cf. Gen 1:26). Truth enlightens
2 Int, 1 | from the living and true God in order to direct it towards
3 Int, 1 | exchanging "the truth about God for a lie" ( 1:25). Man'
4 Int, 1 | away from man the light of God the Creator. In the depths
5 Int, 2 | Ps 4:6). ~The light of God's face shines in all its
6 Int, 2 | the image of the invisible God" (Col 1:15), the "reflection
7 Int, 2 | 15), the "reflection of God's glory" (Heb 1:3), "full
8 Int, 2 | Church, as the People of God among the nations,3 while
9 Int, 3 | Christ and his Gospel or God himself. She knows that
10 Int, 3 | Church, yet who search for God with a sincere heart and
11 Int, 3 | into effect the will of God as known to them through
12 Int, 3 | the express recognition of God, yet who strive, not without
13 Int, 4 | do the commandments of God, which are written on the
14 Int, 4 | Is it possible to obey God and thus love God and neighbour,
15 Int, 4 | to obey God and thus love God and neighbour, without respecting
16 Int, 5 | life of the "children of God": "Recognizing in the faith
17 1, 7 | the echo of a call from God who is the origin and goal
18 1, 7 | encounter" with Christ possible, God willed his Church. Indeed,
19 1, 8 | fulfilled, and the Kingdom of God is at hand; repent, and
20 1, 8 | not only of adoration of God but also of deeper wonder
21 1, 9 | good? No one is good but God alone" (Mk 10:18; cf. Lk
22 1, 9 | good: "No one is good but God alone" (Mk 10:18; cf. Lk
23 1, 9 | 18; cf. Lk 18:19). Only God can answer the question
24 1, 9 | ultimately means to turn towards God, the fullness of goodness.
25 1, 9 | obliges man has its source in God, and indeed is God himself.
26 1, 9 | source in God, and indeed is God himself. God alone is worthy
27 1, 9 | and indeed is God himself. God alone is worthy of being
28 1, 9 | to the acknowledgment of God, who alone is goodness,
29 1, 10 | live "for the praise of God's glory" (cf. Eph 1:12),
30 1, 10 | that you are the image of God", writes Saint Ambrose. "
31 1, 10 | that you are the glory of God (1 Cor 11:7). Hear how you
32 1, 10 | becomes clear as soon as God reveals himself. The Decalogue
33 1, 10 | words: "I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of
34 1, 10 | Israel, and in the whole Law, God makes himself known and
35 1, 10 | holy; for I the Lord your God am holy" (Lev 19:2); as
36 1, 10 | among you, and will be your God, and you shall be my people" (
37 1, 10 | gratuitous initiatives taken by God out of love for man. It
38 1, 10 | O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord; and you shall
39 1, 10 | shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and
40 1, 10 | in the gratuitousness of God's love, is called to reflect
41 1, 10 | For the one who loves God it is enough to be pleasing
42 1, 10 | itself; charity in fact is of God in such a way that God himself
43 1, 10 | of God in such a way that God himself is charity".18 ~
44 1, 11 | calls us to acknowledge God as the one Lord of all and
45 1, 11 | The good is belonging to God, obeying him, walking humbly
46 1, 11 | Acknowledging the Lord as God is the very core, the heart
47 1, 11 | is made evident, because God alone is the One who is
48 1, 11 | with a lively perception of God's absolute holiness: "Holy,
49 1, 11 | hosts" (Is 6:3). ~But if God alone is the Good, no human
50 1, 11 | acknowledging the Lord as God and rendering him the worship
51 1, 11 | come only from a gift of God: the offer of a share in
52 1, 12 | 12. Only God can answer the question
53 1, 12 | because he is the Good. But God has already given an answer
54 1, 12 | understanding infused in us by God, whereby we understand what
55 1, 12 | and what must be avoided. God gave this light and this
56 1, 12 | new spirit", the Spirit of God (cf. Ez 36:24-28).20 ~Consequently,
57 1, 12 | eternal life and obedience to God's commandments: God's commandments
58 1, 12 | obedience to God's commandments: God's commandments show man
59 1, 12 | the Decalogue entrusted by God to Moses on Mount Sinai.
60 1, 12 | participation in the very life of God. It is attained in its perfection
61 1, 13 | show that he acknowledges God's holiness. After directing
62 1, 13 | young man's gaze towards God, Jesus reminds him of the
63 1, 13 | words "I am the Lord your God" mean for man. Nevertheless
64 1, 13 | the only creature that God has wanted for its own sake".21
65 1, 13 | being in relationship with God, with his neighbour and
66 1, 13 | Commandments are part of God's Revelation. At the same
67 1, 13 | the person, the image of God, by protecting his goods. "
68 1, 14 | apart from, the love of God. This is evident from his
69 1, 14 | commandments of love of God and love of neighbour (cf.
70 1, 14 | commandments, genuine love for God is not possible. Saint John
71 1, 14 | If anyone says, 'I love God', and hates his brother,
72 1, 14 | he has seen, cannot love God whom he has not seen" (Jn
73 1, 15 | truth".25 ~Jesus brings God's commandments to fulfilment,
74 1, 16 | the demands contained in God's Law. And yet, even though
75 1, 17 | wish to be perfect") and God's gift of grace ("Come,
76 1, 17 | divine law. Human freedom and God's law are not in opposition;
77 1, 17 | extent to which we serve God we are free, while to the
78 1, 18 | by the flesh" experience God's law as a burden, and indeed
79 1, 18 | to serve others, find in God's Law the fundamental and
80 1, 18 | freedom of the children of God (cf. Rom 8:21) and thus
81 1, 18 | the commandment of love of God. Both the commandments and
82 1, 18 | perfection whose measure is God alone: "You, therefore,
83 1, 19 | people of Israel followed God who led them through the
84 1, 19 | truly becomes a disciple of God (cf. Jn 6:45). Jesus is
85 1, 19 | the image of the invisible God" (Col 1:15), means to imitate
86 1, 20 | brethren out of love for God: "This is my commandment,
87 1, 21 | Rom 6:3-11): alive for God in Christ Jesus, they are
88 1 | With God all things are possible" (
89 1, 22 | the Master refers them to God's power: "With men this
90 1, 22 | is impossible, but with God all things are possible" (
91 1, 22 | authoritative than the Law of Moses: God's original plan for mankind,
92 1, 22 | possibility opened up to man by God's grace. "He said to them: '
93 1, 22 | Gal 5:22) is charity: "God's love has been poured into
94 1, 23 | it possible to carry out God's commandments. Indeed,
95 1, 23 | the result of a gift of God who heals, restores and
96 1, 24 | by grace, by the gift of God, by his love. On the other
97 1, 24 | Jesus Christ the love of God, generates and sustains
98 1, 24 | response of a full love for God and the brethren, as the
99 1, 24 | another; for love is of God and knows God. He who does
100 1, 24 | love is of God and knows God. He who does not love does
101 1, 24 | does not love does not know God; for God is love... Beloved,
102 1, 24 | love does not know God; for God is love... Beloved, if God
103 1, 24 | God is love... Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also
104 1, 25 | The Teacher who expounds God's commandments, who invites
105 1, 25 | moral prescriptions which God imparted in the Old Covenant,
106 1, 25 | very person of the Son of God made man, must be faithfully
107 1, 27 | the "great things" which God has done in history (cf.
108 1, 27 | the faithful expression of God's wisdom and will. ~Within
109 1, 27 | interpreting the word of God, whether in its written
110 2, 28 | man and his activity to God, the One who "alone is good";
111 2, 28 | preserved what the word of God teaches, not only about
112 2, 28 | action, action pleasing to God (cf. 1 Th 4:1); she has
113 2, 29 | faithfully expound" the word of God,48 the Magisterium has the
114 2, 30 | to the truth contained in God's law? what is the role
115 2, 30 | charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus who
116 2, 31 | creature and the image of God, and thus need to be corrected
117 2, 34 | divine image in man. For God willed to leave man "in
118 2, 34 | perfection by cleaving to God".57 Although each individual
119 2, 35 | Genesis we read: "The Lord God commanded the man, saying, '
120 2, 35 | not belong to man, but to God alone. The man is certainly
121 2, 35 | can understand and accept God's commands. And he possesses
122 2, 35 | accept the moral law given by God. In fact, human freedom
123 2, 35 | acceptance of that law. God, who alone is good, knows
124 2, 35 | man in the commandments. ~God's law does not reduce, much
125 2, 36 | reason. In no way could God be considered the Author
126 2, 36 | mandate given to man by God. These trends of thought
127 2, 36 | the natural moral law has God as its author, and that
128 2, 37 | interior attitudes regarding God and neighbour would be significant.
129 2, 37 | and permanent. The word of God would be limited to proposing
130 2, 37 | the light of the word of God and the living Tradition
131 2 | God left man in the power of
132 2, 38 | the divine image" in man: "God willed to leave man in the
133 2, 38 | perfection by cleaving to God".64 These words indicate
134 2, 38 | depth of the sharing in God's dominion to which man
135 2, 39 | care and responsibility. God left man "in the power of
136 2, 39 | himself his likeness to God. ~Even so, the Council warns
137 2, 39 | things are not dependent on God and that man can use them
138 2, 39 | simply disappears... If God is ignored the creature
139 2, 40 | moral law has its origin in God and always finds its source
140 2, 40 | understanding infused in us by God, whereby we understand what
141 2, 40 | and what must be avoided. God gave this light and this
142 2, 41 | acceptance of the moral law, of God's command: "The Lord God
143 2, 41 | God's command: "The Lord God gave this command to the
144 2, 41 | 2:16). Human freedom and God's law meet and are called
145 2, 41 | man's free obedience to God and of God's completely
146 2, 41 | obedience to God and of God's completely gratuitous
147 2, 41 | man. Hence obedience to God is not, as some would believe,
148 2, 41 | man's free obedience to God's law effectively implies
149 2, 41 | human will participate in God's wisdom and providence.
150 2, 41 | knowledge of good and evil", God makes it clear that man
151 2, 41 | image and the nearness of God, who is present in all (
152 2, 41 | acknowledge the majesty of the God of the universe and revere
153 2, 41 | the holiness of the law of God, who is infinitely transcendent:
154 2, 42 | 42. Patterned on God's freedom, man's freedom
155 2, 42 | In his journey towards God, the One who "alone is good",
156 2, 42 | man of the splendour of God's countenance. Thus Saint
157 2, 43 | and universal law by which God out of his wisdom and love
158 2, 43 | of the human community. God has enabled man to share
159 2, 43 | under the gentle guidance of God's providence increasingly
160 2, 43 | the classic teaching on God's eternal law. Saint Augustine
161 2, 43 | the reason or the will of God, who commands us to respect
162 2, 43 | to their due end".80 And God's wisdom is providence,
163 2, 43 | providence, a love which cares. God himself loves and cares,
164 2, 43 | cf Wis 7:22; 8:11). But God provides for man differently
165 2, 43 | its natural knowledge of God's eternal law, is consequently
166 2, 43 | free actions.81 In this way God calls man to participate
167 2, 43 | the human expression of God's eternal law. Saint Thomas
168 2, 44 | human law to the Wisdom of God and to his law. After stating
169 2, 44 | faith, through the law which God gave to the Chosen People,
170 2, 44 | to accept and to live out God's law as a particular gift
171 2, 44 | and also as a pledge of God's blessing. Thus Moses could
172 2, 44 | nation is that that has a god so near to it as the Lord
173 2, 44 | near to it as the Lord our God is to us, whenever we call
174 2, 44 | is called to show towards God's law, together with an
175 2, 45 | authentically interpreting God's law in the light of the
176 2, 45 | which is the "fulfilment" of God's law in Jesus Christ and
177 2, 45 | the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone
178 2, 45 | positive or revealed law of God and the natural law, and,
179 2, 45 | is the one and the same God and which is always meant
180 2, 45 | different ways in which God, acting in history, cares
181 2, 45 | and loving counsel whereby God predestines men and women "
182 2, 45 | of his Son" (Rom 8:29). God's plan poses no threat to
183 2, 45 | contrary, the acceptance of God's plan is the only way to
184 2, 47 | fundamental commandment of love of God and neighbour. Still, they
185 2, 47 | neighbour. Still, they continue, God made man as a rationally
186 2, 49 | excluded from the Kingdom of God (cf 1 Cor 6:9). This condemnation —
187 2, 50 | which he can find the true God. ~The natural law thus understood
188 2, 51 | communion of persons and, by God's grace, practise charity, "
189 2, 52 | and for everyone, to serve God, to render him the worship
190 2, 52 | his vocation to life with God and to communion with his
191 2, 52 | the commandment of love of God and neighbour does not have
192 2, 53 | dynamism of charity towards God and neighbour.98 ~Certainly
193 2, 54 | between man's freedom and God's law is most deeply lived
194 2, 54 | his heart a law written by God. To obey it is the very
195 2, 55 | where he is alone with God whose voice echoes within
196 2, 55 | tasks entrusted to him by God. ~In their desire to emphasize
197 2, 56 | relation to human freedom and God's law. Only the clarification
198 2, 58 | also a dialogue of man with God, the author of the law,
199 2, 58 | that "conscience is like God's herald and messenger;
200 2, 58 | commands them as coming from God's authority, like a herald
201 2, 58 | conscience is the witness of God himself, whose voice and
202 2, 58 | the call, to the voice of God. In this, and not in anything
203 2, 58 | the sacred place where God speaks to man".104 ~
204 2, 59 | conformity or not with the law of God written on the heart. In
205 2, 59 | according to my Gospel, God judges the secrets of men
206 2, 59 | evil, that reflection of God's creative wisdom which,
207 2, 61 | his need, with the help of God's grace, to ask forgiveness,
208 2, 62 | cunning and tamper with God's word", but "openly state
209 2, 62 | prove what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable
210 2, 64 | prove what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable
211 2, 64 | Rom 12:2), knowledge of God's law in general is certainly
212 2, 65 | ultimately for or against God. Emphasis has rightly been
213 2, 66 | on a radical level before God. It is a question of the
214 2, 66 | free self-commitment to God, offering 'the full submission
215 2, 66 | of intellect and will to God as he reveals' ".112 This
216 2, 66 | clause: "I am the Lord your God..." (Ex 20:2), which, by
217 2, 66 | demanded by the Kingdom of God. The radical nature of the
218 2, 67 | towards his end, following God's call. But this capacity
219 2, 67 | deliberately conforms himself to God's will, wisdom and law.
220 2, 68 | option, remain faithful to God independently of whether
221 2, 68 | morally good, persevere in God's grace and attain salvation,
222 2, 68 | and gravely contrary to God's commandments as set forth
223 2, 68 | free self-commitment to God".113 With every freely committed
224 2, 68 | committed mortal sin, he offends God as the giver of the law
225 2, 69 | insist that the opposition to God's law which causes the loss
226 2, 69 | which separates man from God, only exists in the rejection
227 2, 69 | exists in the rejection of God, carried out at a level
228 2, 69 | the bond of communion with God and afterwards be converted
229 2, 70 | commonly said today — against God", seen either as an explicit
230 2, 70 | and formal rejection of God and neighbour or as an implicit
231 2, 70 | divine law, a rejection of God's love for humanity and
232 2, 70 | the person turns away from God and loses charity. Consequently,
233 2, 70 | and consciously rejects God, his law, the covenant of
234 2, 70 | the covenant of love that God offers, preferring to turn
235 2, 70 | every act of disobedience to God's commandments in a grave
236 2, 71 | between man's freedom and God's law, which has its intimate
237 2, 72 | integral and perfect way — by God's supernatural Revelation (
238 2, 72 | towards his ultimate end: God himself, the supreme good
239 2, 72 | ultimate end, the supreme good, God himself. ~
240 2, 73 | The Christian, thanks to God's Revelation and to faith,
241 2, 73 | new creation", a child of God; by his actions he shows
242 2, 73 | love and happiness with God the Father, Son and Holy
243 2, 73(123)| ultimate calling comes from God and is therefore a universal
244 2, 73(123)| mystery in a manner known to God": Gaudium etSpes, 22.~
245 2, 73 | ordering of human acts to God, the supreme good and ultimate
246 2, 73 | subject to the judgment of God, the just and good judge
247 2, 74 | ordering of human acts to God? Is it the intention of
248 2, 75 | values, such as love of God and neighbour, justice,
249 2, 76 | the Church in the name of God, the Creator and Lord.125
250 2, 76 | and their gravity. Love of God and of one's neighbour cannot
251 2, 76 | characteristic of Christians to obey God rather than men (cf Acts
252 2, 78 | not of being ordered to God, to the One who "alone is
253 2, 78 | actually does order it to God through charity. As the
254 2, 78 | sole purpose of pleasing God".129 ~
255 2, 79 | the ultimate end, which is God. This capability is grasped
256 2, 80 | incapable of being ordered" to God, because they radically
257 2, 81 | will inherit the Kingdom of God" (1 Cor 6:9-10). ~If acts
258 2, 81 | capable of being ordered to God and to the good of the person. "
259 2, 82 | capable of being ordered" to God and "unworthy of the human
260 2, 83 | the commandment of love of God and neighbour. And this
261 3, 84 | relationship of man's freedom to God's law; it is ultimately
262 3, 84 | of trust in the wisdom of God, who guides man with the
263 3, 84 | said and done, the law of God is always the one true good
264 3, 85 | prove what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable
265 3, 85 | Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God" (
266 3, 85 | of God and the wisdom of God" (1 Cor 1:17, (23-24). The
267 3, 86 | himself: "You will be like God" (Gen 3:5). Consequently,
268 3, 87 | The true worshippers of God must thus worship him "in
269 3, 87 | become free. Worship of God and a relationship with
270 3, 87 | gift of self in service to God and one's brethren. Communion
271 3, 87 | because you are loved by God your Creator; indeed, you
272 3, 87 | obedience to the will of God. His crucified flesh fully
273 3, 88 | people think and live "as if God did not exist". We are speaking
274 3, 88 | 20), in profound love of God and of our brothers and
275 3, 89 | acceptance and observance of God's commandments. As Saint
276 3, 89 | As Saint John writes, "God is light and in him is no
277 3, 89 | word, in him truly love for God is perfected. By this we
278 3, 89 | confession", not only before God but also before men: it
279 3, 89 | Cross: "Be imitators of God, as beloved children", Paul
280 3, 89 | offering and sacrifice to God" (Eph 5:1-2). ~
281 3 | the inviolable holiness of God's law ~
282 3, 90 | reflected the splendour of God (cf Gen 9:5-6). ~The unacceptability
283 3, 91 | fidelity to the holy law of God even to the point of a voluntary
284 3, 91 | to her faith and trust in God but also to her obedience
285 3, 91 | is not right to do what God's law qualifies as evil
286 3, 91 | about the good and to the God of Israel. By her acts,
287 3, 91 | revealed the holiness of God. ~At the dawn of the New
288 3, 91 | concrete act contrary to God's love and the witness of
289 3, 91 | according to which the love of God entails the obligation to
290 3, 92 | both to the holiness of God's law and to the inviolability
291 3, 92 | dignity of man, created in God's image and likeness. This
292 3, 92 | imitate the passion of my God".145 ~
293 3, 93 | the Church. Fidelity to God's holy law, witnessed to
294 3, 93 | called, with the grace of God invoked in prayer, to a
295 3, 94 | and mysterious workings of God's Spirit are not absent.
296 3, 95 | meaning as an outpouring of God's eternal Wisdom, which
297 3, 99 | 99. Only God, the Supreme Good, constitutes
298 3, 99 | meet in truth: the truth of God, the Creator and Redeemer,
299 3, 99 | visible image of the invisible God, is therefore by his very
300 3, 99 | the essential bond between God's wisdom and will — is extremely
301 3 | Grace and obedience to God's law ~
302 3, 102 | that he can be obedient to God's holy commandment and consistent
303 3, 102 | evil. "You will be like God, knowing good and evil" (
304 3, 102 | Sir 15:19-20). Keeping God's law in particular situations
305 3, 102 | that the commandments of God are impossible of observance
306 3, 102 | one who is justified. For God does not command the impossible,
307 3, 103 | strength always to keep God's holy law, even amid the
308 3, 103 | which flows from that act. God's command is of course proportioned
309 3, 104 | allowance is made both for God's mercy towards the sinner
310 3, 104 | need to have recourse to God and his mercy. An attitude
311 3, 104 | own unworthiness before God's infinite holiness: "God,
312 3, 104 | God's infinite holiness: "God, be merciful to me a sinner! " (
313 3, 105 | he replies: "Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our
314 3, 105 | Still, we can imagine that God does not reject those he
315 3, 107 | preached the Kingdom of God and its saving love, called
316 3, 107 | members of the People of God, humble and often unseen,
317 3, 107 | the liberating force of God's love, and the value of
318 3, 107 | in the Virgin Mother of God "full of grace" and "all-holy",
319 3, 107 | life in accordance with God's commandments and the Beatitudes
320 3, 107 | reflection of the goodness of God — the One who "alone is
321 3, 107 | also a glorification of God and his infinite holiness.
322 3, 107 | holiness and glorification of God which is found in the Sacraments,
323 3, 109 | understanding of the word of God found in the inspired Scriptures
324 3, 109 | revealed truth beckons reason — God's gift fashioned for the
325 3, 109 | thereby aids the People of God in fulfilling the Apostle'
326 3, 110 | proclaiming the commandments of God and the charity of Christ,
327 3, 112 | as contrary to the law of God, cannot be a valid argument
328 3, 112 | sinners; it proclaims to them God's mercy, which is constantly
329 3, 112 | inability fully to know and keep God's law and from the presumption
330 3, 112 | be saved without merit. God also reminds sinners of
331 3, 113 | have confident recourse to God's grace. ~While exchanges
332 3, 113 | constitution of the People of God. Opposition to the teaching
333 3, 113 | member of the People of God, the theologian must be
334 3, 114 | of faith of the People of God is particularly incumbent
335 3, 114 | things which lead them to God, just as the Lord Jesus
336 3, 114 | referred the young man to God, the Lord of creation and
337 3, 114 | effective means for obeying God's holy law, and when with
338 3, 115 | first loved us" (1Jn 4:19). God asks us to be holy as he
339 3, 115 | commandment are based upon God's infinitely merciful love (
340 3, 115 | proper to the children of God. ~
341 3, 116 | vigilant that the word of God is faithfully taught. My
342 3, 117 | inmost being, the voice of God who "alone is good" (cf
343 3, 117 | our competence is from God, who has made us competent
344 Conc, 118 | moralists, to Mary, Mother of God and Mother of Mercy. ~Mary
345 Conc, 118 | Father as the revelation of God's mercy (cf Jn 3:16-18).
346 Conc, 118 | is "the Son of the living God" (Mt 16:16). No human sin
347 Conc, 118 | sin can erase the mercy of God, or prevent him from unleashing
348 Conc, 118 | beautiful, pleasing to God and in conformity with his
349 Conc, 120 | and the universality of God's love, which opens her
350 Conc, 120 | noble than the Mother of God? Who can be more glorious
351 Conc, 120 | precisely by giving herself to God and accepting God's gift
352 Conc, 120 | herself to God and accepting God's gift within herself. Until
353 Conc, 120 | sheltered in her womb the Son of God who became man; she raised
354 Conc, 120 | entered fully into the plan of God who gives himself to the
355 Conc, 120 | those who hear the word of God and keep it (cf Lk 11:28),
356 Conc, 120 | himself, the Eternal Word of God, who perfectly reveals and
357 Conc, 120 | openness to the grace of God. Not having known sin, she
358 Conc, 120 | hope ever more fully in God ~who is "rich in mercy" (
359 Conc, 120 | good works prepared ~by God beforehand (cf Eph 2:10) ~
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