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What I have found so far in the Intelex Past Masters version of Aquinas in
English:
Summa Contra Gentiles Bk 1 Ch 43 p 96
Moreover. Whatever has a particular
perfection is the more perfect according as it
more fully participates that perfection. Now
there cannot be, nor even be imagined, a way in
which a perfection is possessed more fully, than
by that which is perfect by its essence, and whose
being is its goodness: and such is God. Therefore
in no way can anything be imagined better or
more perfect than God. Therefore He is perfect in
goodness.
Tom Izbicki
At 11:00 AM 9/5/2001 -0500, you wrote:
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>Dear Friends,
>
>I'm banging my head on a wall searching for a quotation from Aquinas. The
>quotation, which I memorized in graduate school because I like it so much,
>runs thus:
>
>"Every creature has a perfection peculiar to itself, and that perfection
>consists in attaining the end God has ordained for it."
>
>I am nearly certain that this line occurs in ST Ia q 22 or 23, but for the
>life of me I cannot find it. It is possible that I have scrambled it, or
>that I manufactured it as my own summary of Aquinas's doctrine of
>providence. But I'm not ready to give in.
>
>Does anybody who knows Aquinas better than I, and whose eyes are not bleary
>from looking, recognize this quotation?
>
>
>Patrick Nugent
>
>
>
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