Sentences with phrase «freely willed»

This choice is the meaning of love, freely willed; its moral significance is eternal and objective.

Aware of a criticism sometimes leveled at the Scotist view, St Francis says of the Incarnation that «this sovereign sweetness was communicated perfectly outside itself to a creature» by God's own free and eternal choice, and this is the basis of the created order as God freely willed to make it.

So creation is a freely willed act of our God who loves and who, St. John tells us, is love.

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He created man as a free being because He wished to be freely known, willed, and loved.

Likewise, religious observances may not be coerced because they, too, must be willed freely to be genuinely religious observances.