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Spirituality of the Creator
"For not only does the
authority of the divine books declare that God is; but the whole nature of the
universe itself which surrounds us, and to which we also belong, proclaims that
it has a most excellent Creator, who has given to us a mind and natural reason,
whereby to see that things living are to be preferred to things that are not
living; things that have sense to things that have not; things that have
understanding to things that have not; things immortal to things mortal; things
powerful to things impotent; things righteous to things unrighteous; things
beautiful to things deformed: things good to things evil; things incorruptible
to things corruptible; things changeable to things changeable; things invisible
to things visible; things incorporeal to things corporeal; things blessed to
things miserable. And hence, since without doubt we place the Creator above
things created, we must needs confess that the Creator both lives in the highest
sense, and perceives and understands all things. and that He cannot die, or
suffer decay, or be changed; and that He is not a body, but a spirit, of all the
most powerful, most righteous, most beautiful, most good, most blessed."
St Augustine, On the Trinity, 15, 4.6
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