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(...) Veritatis splendor
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2001 2, 41 | human will participate in God's wisdom and providence.
2002 2, 41 | knowledge of good and evil", God makes it clear that man
2003 2, 41 | image and the nearness of God, who is present in all (
2004 2, 41 | acknowledge the majesty of the God of the universe and revere
2005 2, 41 | the holiness of the law of God, who is infinitely transcendent:
2006 2, 42 | 42. Patterned on God's freedom, man's freedom
2007 2, 42 | In his journey towards God, the One who "alone is good",
2008 2, 42 | man of the splendour of God's countenance. Thus Saint
2009 2, 43 | and universal law by which God out of his wisdom and love
2010 2, 43 | of the human community. God has enabled man to share
2011 2, 43 | under the gentle guidance of God's providence increasingly
2012 2, 43 | the classic teaching on God's eternal law. Saint Augustine
2013 2, 43 | the reason or the will of God, who commands us to respect
2014 2, 43 | to their due end".80 And God's wisdom is providence,
2015 2, 43 | providence, a love which cares. God himself loves and cares,
2016 2, 43 | cf Wis 7:22; 8:11). But God provides for man differently
2017 2, 43 | its natural knowledge of God's eternal law, is consequently
2018 2, 43 | free actions.81 In this way God calls man to participate
2019 2, 43 | the human expression of God's eternal law. Saint Thomas
2020 2, 44 | human law to the Wisdom of God and to his law. After stating
2021 2, 44 | faith, through the law which God gave to the Chosen People,
2022 2, 44 | to accept and to live out God's law as a particular gift
2023 2, 44 | and also as a pledge of God's blessing. Thus Moses could
2024 2, 44 | nation is that that has a god so near to it as the Lord
2025 2, 44 | near to it as the Lord our God is to us, whenever we call
2026 2, 44 | is called to show towards God's law, together with an
2027 2, 45 | authentically interpreting God's law in the light of the
2028 2, 45 | which is the "fulfilment" of God's law in Jesus Christ and
2029 2, 45 | the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone
2030 2, 45 | positive or revealed law of God and the natural law, and,
2031 2, 45 | is the one and the same God and which is always meant
2032 2, 45 | different ways in which God, acting in history, cares
2033 2, 45 | and loving counsel whereby God predestines men and women "
2034 2, 45 | of his Son" (Rom 8:29). God's plan poses no threat to
2035 2, 45 | contrary, the acceptance of God's plan is the only way to
2036 2, 47 | fundamental commandment of love of God and neighbour. Still, they
2037 2, 47 | neighbour. Still, they continue, God made man as a rationally
2038 2, 49 | excluded from the Kingdom of God (cf 1 Cor 6:9). This condemnation —
2039 2, 50 | which he can find the true God. ~The natural law thus understood
2040 2, 51 | communion of persons and, by God's grace, practise charity, "
2041 2, 52 | and for everyone, to serve God, to render him the worship
2042 2, 52 | his vocation to life with God and to communion with his
2043 2, 52 | the commandment of love of God and neighbour does not have
2044 2, 53 | dynamism of charity towards God and neighbour.98 ~Certainly
2045 2, 54 | between man's freedom and God's law is most deeply lived
2046 2, 54 | his heart a law written by God. To obey it is the very
2047 2, 55 | where he is alone with God whose voice echoes within
2048 2, 55 | tasks entrusted to him by God. ~In their desire to emphasize
2049 2, 56 | relation to human freedom and God's law. Only the clarification
2050 2, 58 | also a dialogue of man with God, the author of the law,
2051 2, 58 | that "conscience is like God's herald and messenger;
2052 2, 58 | commands them as coming from God's authority, like a herald
2053 2, 58 | conscience is the witness of God himself, whose voice and
2054 2, 58 | the call, to the voice of God. In this, and not in anything
2055 2, 58 | the sacred place where God speaks to man".104 ~
2056 2, 59 | conformity or not with the law of God written on the heart. In
2057 2, 59 | according to my Gospel, God judges the secrets of men
2058 2, 59 | evil, that reflection of God's creative wisdom which,
2059 2, 61 | his need, with the help of God's grace, to ask forgiveness,
2060 2, 62 | cunning and tamper with God's word", but "openly state
2061 2, 62 | prove what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable
2062 2, 64 | prove what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable
2063 2, 64 | Rom 12:2), knowledge of God's law in general is certainly
2064 2, 65 | ultimately for or against God. Emphasis has rightly been
2065 2, 66 | on a radical level before God. It is a question of the
2066 2, 66 | free self-commitment to God, offering 'the full submission
2067 2, 66 | of intellect and will to God as he reveals' ".112 This
2068 2, 66 | clause: "I am the Lord your God..." (Ex 20:2), which, by
2069 2, 66 | demanded by the Kingdom of God. The radical nature of the
2070 2, 67 | towards his end, following God's call. But this capacity
2071 2, 67 | deliberately conforms himself to God's will, wisdom and law.
2072 2, 68 | option, remain faithful to God independently of whether
2073 2, 68 | morally good, persevere in God's grace and attain salvation,
2074 2, 68 | and gravely contrary to God's commandments as set forth
2075 2, 68 | free self-commitment to God".113 With every freely committed
2076 2, 68 | committed mortal sin, he offends God as the giver of the law
2077 2, 69 | insist that the opposition to God's law which causes the loss
2078 2, 69 | which separates man from God, only exists in the rejection
2079 2, 69 | exists in the rejection of God, carried out at a level
2080 2, 69 | the bond of communion with God and afterwards be converted
2081 2, 70 | commonly said today — against God", seen either as an explicit
2082 2, 70 | and formal rejection of God and neighbour or as an implicit
2083 2, 70 | divine law, a rejection of God's love for humanity and
2084 2, 70 | the person turns away from God and loses charity. Consequently,
2085 2, 70 | and consciously rejects God, his law, the covenant of
2086 2, 70 | the covenant of love that God offers, preferring to turn
2087 2, 70 | every act of disobedience to God's commandments in a grave
2088 2, 71 | between man's freedom and God's law, which has its intimate
2089 2, 72 | integral and perfect way — by God's supernatural Revelation (
2090 2, 72 | towards his ultimate end: God himself, the supreme good
2091 2, 72 | ultimate end, the supreme good, God himself. ~
2092 2, 73 | The Christian, thanks to God's Revelation and to faith,
2093 2, 73 | new creation", a child of God; by his actions he shows
2094 2, 73 | love and happiness with God the Father, Son and Holy
2095 2, 73(123) | ultimate calling comes from God and is therefore a universal
2096 2, 73(123) | mystery in a manner known to God": Gaudium etSpes, 22.~
2097 2, 73 | ordering of human acts to God, the supreme good and ultimate
2098 2, 73 | subject to the judgment of God, the just and good judge
2099 2, 74 | ordering of human acts to God? Is it the intention of
2100 2, 75 | values, such as love of God and neighbour, justice,
2101 2, 76 | the Church in the name of God, the Creator and Lord.125
2102 2, 76 | and their gravity. Love of God and of one's neighbour cannot
2103 2, 76 | characteristic of Christians to obey God rather than men (cf Acts
2104 2, 78 | not of being ordered to God, to the One who "alone is
2105 2, 78 | actually does order it to God through charity. As the
2106 2, 78 | sole purpose of pleasing God".129 ~
2107 2, 79 | the ultimate end, which is God. This capability is grasped
2108 2, 80 | incapable of being ordered" to God, because they radically
2109 2, 81 | will inherit the Kingdom of God" (1 Cor 6:9-10). ~If acts
2110 2, 81 | capable of being ordered to God and to the good of the person. "
2111 2, 82 | capable of being ordered" to God and "unworthy of the human
2112 2, 83 | the commandment of love of God and neighbour. And this
2113 3, 84 | relationship of man's freedom to God's law; it is ultimately
2114 3, 84 | of trust in the wisdom of God, who guides man with the
2115 3, 84 | said and done, the law of God is always the one true good
2116 3, 85 | prove what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable
2117 3, 85 | Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God" (
2118 3, 85 | of God and the wisdom of God" (1 Cor 1:17, (23-24). The
2119 3, 86 | himself: "You will be like God" (Gen 3:5). Consequently,
2120 3, 87 | The true worshippers of God must thus worship him "in
2121 3, 87 | become free. Worship of God and a relationship with
2122 3, 87 | gift of self in service to God and one's brethren. Communion
2123 3, 87 | because you are loved by God your Creator; indeed, you
2124 3, 87 | obedience to the will of God. His crucified flesh fully
2125 3, 88 | people think and live "as if God did not exist". We are speaking
2126 3, 88 | 20), in profound love of God and of our brothers and
2127 3, 89 | acceptance and observance of God's commandments. As Saint
2128 3, 89 | As Saint John writes, "God is light and in him is no
2129 3, 89 | word, in him truly love for God is perfected. By this we
2130 3, 89 | confession", not only before God but also before men: it
2131 3, 89 | Cross: "Be imitators of God, as beloved children", Paul
2132 3, 89 | offering and sacrifice to God" (Eph 5:1-2). ~
2133 3 | the inviolable holiness of God's law ~
2134 3, 90 | reflected the splendour of God (cf Gen 9:5-6). ~The unacceptability
2135 3, 91 | fidelity to the holy law of God even to the point of a voluntary
2136 3, 91 | to her faith and trust in God but also to her obedience
2137 3, 91 | is not right to do what God's law qualifies as evil
2138 3, 91 | about the good and to the God of Israel. By her acts,
2139 3, 91 | revealed the holiness of God. ~At the dawn of the New
2140 3, 91 | concrete act contrary to God's love and the witness of
2141 3, 91 | according to which the love of God entails the obligation to
2142 3, 92 | both to the holiness of God's law and to the inviolability
2143 3, 92 | dignity of man, created in God's image and likeness. This
2144 3, 92 | imitate the passion of my God".145 ~
2145 3, 93 | the Church. Fidelity to God's holy law, witnessed to
2146 3, 93 | called, with the grace of God invoked in prayer, to a
2147 3, 94 | and mysterious workings of God's Spirit are not absent.
2148 3, 95 | meaning as an outpouring of God's eternal Wisdom, which
2149 3, 99 | 99. Only God, the Supreme Good, constitutes
2150 3, 99 | meet in truth: the truth of God, the Creator and Redeemer,
2151 3, 99 | visible image of the invisible God, is therefore by his very
2152 3, 99 | the essential bond between God's wisdom and will — is extremely
2153 3 | Grace and obedience to God's law ~
2154 3, 102 | that he can be obedient to God's holy commandment and consistent
2155 3, 102 | evil. "You will be like God, knowing good and evil" (
2156 3, 102 | Sir 15:19-20). Keeping God's law in particular situations
2157 3, 102 | that the commandments of God are impossible of observance
2158 3, 102 | one who is justified. For God does not command the impossible,
2159 3, 103 | strength always to keep God's holy law, even amid the
2160 3, 103 | which flows from that act. God's command is of course proportioned
2161 3, 104 | allowance is made both for God's mercy towards the sinner
2162 3, 104 | need to have recourse to God and his mercy. An attitude
2163 3, 104 | own unworthiness before God's infinite holiness: "God,
2164 3, 104 | God's infinite holiness: "God, be merciful to me a sinner! " (
2165 3, 105 | he replies: "Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our
2166 3, 105 | Still, we can imagine that God does not reject those he
2167 3, 107 | preached the Kingdom of God and its saving love, called
2168 3, 107 | members of the People of God, humble and often unseen,
2169 3, 107 | the liberating force of God's love, and the value of
2170 3, 107 | in the Virgin Mother of God "full of grace" and "all-holy",
2171 3, 107 | life in accordance with God's commandments and the Beatitudes
2172 3, 107 | reflection of the goodness of God — the One who "alone is
2173 3, 107 | also a glorification of God and his infinite holiness.
2174 3, 107 | holiness and glorification of God which is found in the Sacraments,
2175 3, 109 | understanding of the word of God found in the inspired Scriptures
2176 3, 109 | revealed truth beckons reason — God's gift fashioned for the
2177 3, 109 | thereby aids the People of God in fulfilling the Apostle'
2178 3, 110 | proclaiming the commandments of God and the charity of Christ,
2179 3, 112 | as contrary to the law of God, cannot be a valid argument
2180 3, 112 | sinners; it proclaims to them God's mercy, which is constantly
2181 3, 112 | inability fully to know and keep God's law and from the presumption
2182 3, 112 | be saved without merit. God also reminds sinners of
2183 3, 113 | have confident recourse to God's grace. ~While exchanges
2184 3, 113 | constitution of the People of God. Opposition to the teaching
2185 3, 113 | member of the People of God, the theologian must be
2186 3, 114 | of faith of the People of God is particularly incumbent
2187 3, 114 | things which lead them to God, just as the Lord Jesus
2188 3, 114 | referred the young man to God, the Lord of creation and
2189 3, 114 | effective means for obeying God's holy law, and when with
2190 3, 115 | first loved us" (1Jn 4:19). God asks us to be holy as he
2191 3, 115 | commandment are based upon God's infinitely merciful love (
2192 3, 115 | proper to the children of God. ~
2193 3, 116 | vigilant that the word of God is faithfully taught. My
2194 3, 117 | inmost being, the voice of God who "alone is good" (cf
2195 3, 117 | our competence is from God, who has made us competent
2196 Conc, 118 | moralists, to Mary, Mother of God and Mother of Mercy. ~Mary
2197 Conc, 118 | Father as the revelation of God's mercy (cf Jn 3:16-18).
2198 Conc, 118 | is "the Son of the living God" (Mt 16:16). No human sin
2199 Conc, 118 | sin can erase the mercy of God, or prevent him from unleashing
2200 Conc, 118 | beautiful, pleasing to God and in conformity with his
2201 Conc, 120 | and the universality of God's love, which opens her
2202 Conc, 120 | noble than the Mother of God? Who can be more glorious
2203 Conc, 120 | precisely by giving herself to God and accepting God's gift
2204 Conc, 120 | herself to God and accepting God's gift within herself. Until
2205 Conc, 120 | sheltered in her womb the Son of God who became man; she raised
2206 Conc, 120 | entered fully into the plan of God who gives himself to the
2207 Conc, 120 | those who hear the word of God and keep it (cf Lk 11:28),
2208 Conc, 120 | himself, the Eternal Word of God, who perfectly reveals and
2209 Conc, 120 | openness to the grace of God. Not having known sin, she
2210 Conc, 120 | hope ever more fully in God ~who is "rich in mercy" (
2211 Conc, 120 | good works prepared ~by God beforehand (cf Eph 2:10) ~
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