Sentences with phrase «pure act without»

His love is pure act without shadow of passivity.

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First principle, Being's pure act, Infinite cause Of finite fact, Essential being, Beyond our sight, Without which, nothing, Neither love nor light, Only through You Love's infinite power Brings into being Atom and flower.

The question, therefore, is whether such a concept of a cause to which the infinite reality of pure act belongs as a factor constituting it without becoming an intrinsic constituent of the entity of the finite cause itself, but in some way remains free, detached from the process of becoming, but provides the real ground of the self - transcending operation of the finite agent itself, is a valid and demonstrable concept, or only a paradoxical and intrinsically self - contradictory construction which can only conceal the fact that our thought has reached an impasse.

I firmly believe that giving out of guilt is better than not giving at all, and that sometimes our acts of faithfulness must precede (or do without) our pure motives.]

Aquinas concentrated his attention on the doctrine of divine immutability in Question 9, repeating there that God is «first being» and «pure act, without the admixture of any potentiality.»

First, because it was shown above that there is some first being, whom we call God; and that this first being must be pure act, without the admixture of any potentiality, for the reason that, absolutely, potentiality is posterior to act.

Three years ago, I reviewed Drawing on the Utopic, Thomas's solo show of collages and drawings at Storefront in Bushwick, where I felt that each piece represented an «act of pure invention,» which managed to navigate «randomness without becoming arbitrary.»

Those who are spiritually developed do not need specific covenants, they will have rid themselves of the capacity to harm others, and will at all times act from pure volition, with wisdom and without ego.