Aquinas Quote: Life's Journey to God #shorts

Added: 2026-05-26

[00:00:00]It it reminds me, um, so, I just want to read a short quote from you in your book where I think you you kind of capture exactly what you're talking about.

[00:00:11]Um, it's on page 218 in in chapter eight. And you write, "For Aquinas, humans are God's good, beloved creatures, embodied manifestations of God's love, formed in a way that we are able to know God and the things of God and to conform our lives to God's ratio, God's good ordering of the world.

[00:00:36]As creatures formed for God, we seek beat- beatitudo in all of our actions, and perfect beatitudo is found only in pursuing God as our highest end.

[00:00:48]We are wayfarers on a journey from God to God, a journey made possible not only by our activity, but by God's gracious action towards us in the person and work of Christ. We are on the way. Christ is the way, and all our lives are those of wayfarers on a journey."

[00:01:08]And I I just love that, um, those lines, um, and the way that it paints such a beautiful picture of what it means to be human and what it means to live a life under God's care.