On prayer and the contemplative life

by Saint Aquinas Thomas

[35] Of the City of God, x. 3.

[36] Of the True Religion, lv.

[37] St. Jas. i. 27.

[38] Of the City of God, x. 1.

[39] Of the City of God, x. 1.

[40] Gal. v. 13.

[41] The objection and its solution turn upon the Latin words cultus and colere, which cannot be consistently rendered in English; "reverence" is perhaps the most appropriate translation here.

[42] Of the City of God, x. 1.

[43] Gal. iv. 14.

[44] Rom. viii. 31.