Quotes

Question 0

Aquinas on NML & eternal law

Answer 0

(NML is)’Nothing else than the rational creature’a participation in the eternal law”

Question 1

What did Cicero say about NML?

Answer 1

“True law is right reason in agreement with nature. It is applied universally and is unchanging and everlasting… One eternal and unchangeable law will be valid for all nations and all times, and there will be one master and rule. That is God”

Question 2

St Paul on NML

Answer 2

‘Ever since the creation of the world, his invisible nature, namely, his eternal power and deity has been clearly perceived in things that have been made’ (Romans 1:20)

Question 3

Aquinas on community

Answer 3

For even if the good of the community coincide with that of the individual, it is clearly a greater and more perfect thing to achieve and preserve that of a community; for a whole it is dose table to secure what is good in case if an individual, to do so in the case of a people or a state is something finer.’

Question 4

St Paul on highest good

Answer 4

“… Since we all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God” (Romans 3:23)