Sentences with phrase «supernatural beatitude»

Both these are defective when it comes to supernatural beatitude — hence in regard to each, something must be added supernaturally to man to direct him to his supernatural end.

We can not love Godor hope for eternal happiness unless our minds have some apprehension of God and supernatural beatitude, and we have this by faith.

[11] «The theological virtues direct man to supernatural beatitude as he is directed by natural inclination to his natural end.

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By way of contrast, the non-Christian, deprived of supernatural revelation, was possessed only of natural knowledge, lived his life in the secular sphere, and performed purely secular or natural activities that merited him only a natural beatitude if they were naturally good.1 The atheist, however, being obdurate in his unbelief, was unregenerated and therefore considered unworthy even of a natural beatitude.