“God is utterly simple; for every composite being necessarily has a cause of its own composition, and so, since God is the first principle of all things, there can be no real composition whatever in God. Now, in an utterly simple being there can be nothing that is not that simple being itself. In God, therefore, whatever really is, is the same as God, is the same as that which is, is the same as that which subsists, and hence necessarily subsists.” FirstsRealCausesSimplePrinciplesAll ThingsCompositionBeing ThereComposites Author:Bernard Lonergan
“The fulfilment that is being in love with God is not the product of our knowledge and choice. It is God's gift. Like all being in love, as distinct from particular acts of loving, it is a first principle. So far from resulting from our knowledge and choice, it dismantles and abolishes the horizon within which our knowing and choosing went on, and it sets up a new horizon within which the love of God transvalues our values and the eyes of that love transform our knowing.” FirstsEyeValuesChoicesPrinciplesKnowingParticularProductsGod LoveHorizonBeing In LoveAbolishFulfilmentNew Horizons Book:A Second Collection Source: A Second Collection
