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 1     Int         |      Augustine, is God’s freedom to act without any external necessity
 2     Int         |           necessity whatsoever - to act in love beyond human understanding
 3     Int         |        understanding or control; to act in creation, judgment, and
 4     Int         |             could not muster a full act of the whole will to strike
 5       2, V      |        taking delight simply in the act of murder? Who would believe
 6       2, VI     |             thee. But, even in this act of perverse imitation, they
 7       2, VIII   |             satisfied with the mere act of theft by which my pleasure
 8       2, IX     |            I stole but, rather, the act of stealing. Nor would I
 9       3, II     |           Thus it is that thou dost act, O Lord God, for thou lovest
10       5, VIII   |         allow. They think that they act thus with impunity, though
11       5, VIII   |           blindness with which they act is their punishment, and
12       6, I      |            nor could I see that the act of thought, by which I formed
13       6, V      |          evil which we fear, or the act of fearing is in itself
14       6, XIX    |             to move the limbs by an act of will, at another time
15       7, IV     |               9. Go on, O Lord, and act: stir us up and call us
16       7, VI(252)|          habit to be overcome by an act of conscious resolution.~
17       7, VIII   |            men do when they will to act but cannot, either because
18       7, IX     | distinguished from the obedience in act. Yet the mind is mind, and
19       7, IX     |           commands that there be an act of will - not another, but
20       7, X      |          there are two wills in the act of deliberation, go on to
21       8, II     |             who took notice of this act of mine and observed how
22       9, IV     |            I do this, then, both in act and word. I do this under
23       9, VII    |           which I, the single mind, act. I will soar also beyond
24       9, IX     |           in a marvelous way by the act of remembering.~
25       9, XXXIII |        forth. As for you who do not act this way at all, such things
26       9, XXXV   |             to thee by a deliberate act of thought - or else to
27       9, XXXVII |            them either by voluntary act of the will or because they
28      10, X      |           true eternity in which an act of will occurs that was
29      11, XXIX   |            before the fruit; in the act of choice, the fruit is
30      12, III    |             of existing, but by the act of turning its face to the
31      12, XXI    |         intent to hear, but also to act. Seek the Lord and your