St. Thomas Aquinas on Suffering and Evil | Fr. Thomas Petri, O.P.
The Thomistic Institute
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The Modern Conception of Freedom
"We need to say that god, since he is the first source of the movement of everything, moves certain things in such a way that they also move their very selves. And if those with free choice be properly disposed and rightly ordered, that os important to receive movement by god, good acts will result." "But if those withfree choice should defect from the requisite order of your nature, disordered acts that are acts of sin result," says Rumi. 'The activity comes from god, but the disorder comes from us'
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