How To Use Connatural In A Sentence

  • First, on account of the violence of its onslaught; thus anger is violent in its onslaught on account of its impetuosity; and "still more difficult is it to resist concupiscence, on account of its connaturality," as stated in _Ethic. _ ii, 3, 9. Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
  • In fact, in the post-lapsarian situation, even ‘connatural’ moral actions require some sort of gracious assistance.
  • St. Thomas Aquinas says of the gift of wisdom that it instills that virtue whereby we habitually "judge and order all things in accordance with divine norms and with a connaturality that flows from loving union with God. The splendor of the firmament
  • Now rectitude of judgment is twofold: first, on account of perfect use of reason, secondly, on account of a certain connaturality with the matter about which one has to judge. Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
  • Since this change of perspective cannot be obtained in years but in generations, we believe in connatural pedagogics.
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  • As man, He was the ‘perfect connatural principle of all forces of supernatural activity.’
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  • mankind's connatural sense of the good
  • Hence, this law is promulgated through our connatural knowledge, and it is called ‘natural’ because obedience to it leads us toward the good that we desire by nature.
  • The common principles of prudence, indeed, are connatural to man; but other principles of a practical kind are acquired by experience or instruction.
  • The organism, the community whose cells were men, whose life had flowed through seventy generations, seemed tense tonight, seemed to sense a note amiss tonight, seemed aware, through the connaturality of its membership, of what had been told to only a few. A Canticle for Leibowitz
  • There is a measure of light which is suited unto our visive faculty; what exceeds it dazzles and amazes, rather than enlightens, but every degree of light which tends unto it is connatural and pleasant to the eye. Pneumatologia
  • and mix with our connatural dust
  • And then the flesh, as it is the greatest retardment in good, it is the greatest incitement to evil, it is a bosom enemy, that betrays us to Satan, it is near us and connatural to us. The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning
  • Thus, about matters of chastity, a man after inquiring with his reason forms a right judgment, if he has learnt the science of morals, while he who has the habit of chastity judges of such matters by a kind of connaturality. Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
  • What he calls not innate, but connatural qualities of the human character, was, during the latter part of the last century, entirely rejected; but of late there appears a tendency to return to the notion consecrated by antiquity.
  • But her limbs have internalized the aesthetic of the dance; beautiful movement, or at least beautiful movement of that kind, has become connatural.
  • This artistic knowledge is an instance of what Maritain calls, in general, knowledge though connaturality; it is a kind of 'creative intuition' that arises out of "the free creativity of the spirit" (Creative Intuition, p. 112; Natural Law, p. 18). Jacques Maritain
  • The family is connatural to man and was instituted by God.
  • That's why photos, in contrast, make great backgrounds and fills for sharp-edged text and geometric primitives, and that's why soft gradients and blurring seem so connatural to digitized photography.
  • Now this sympathy or connaturality for Divine things is the result of charity, which unites us to God, according to 1 Cor. Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
  • Accordingly it belongs to the wisdom that is an intellectual virtue to pronounce right judgment about Divine things after reason has made its inquiry, but it belongs to wisdom as a gift of the Holy Ghost to judge aright about them on account of connaturality with them: thus Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
  • Innate is a word he poorly plays upon: the right word, though less used, is connatural.
  • This a priori orientation toward being - with its implicit pre-conceptual awareness of being by connatural affinity and desire, as we know a good by being drawn to it - is a genuine a priori presence of being to the human mind constitutive of its very nature as a dynamic faculty.
  • Thus it is plain that it is the connatural mode of the human soul to receive knowledge as a habit.

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