Spiritual Quote of the Day (St. Thomas Aquinas, on ‘God's Love for Things’)

“God's love for things is better than ours. For our will is not the cause of goodness, but responds to goodness. Our liking does not produce the good of the thing we love; it is the other way round—the goodness, real or apparent, of the thing calls forth our love, whether that love be a love which rests content with its object as it finds it or a love which seeks to improve it. But God’s love, which makes things out of nothingness, impregnates all the goodness they have.”— Italian theologian and Doctor of the Church St. Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274), Selected Writings, translated by George N. Shuster and translated by Thomas Gilby (1971)