Likewise as to Origen's anthropology, man conceived in the image of God is able by imitating God in good works to become like God, if he first recognizes his own weakness and trusts all to the divine goodness.
The Jesuit's prayer should attune him to this reality and, according to the ideal, render every moment an act of contemplation of divine goodness.
- His first work, whose title translates as Foretaste of divine goodness.
Estoiles - Around the globe are seven estoiles, heraldic symbols for divine goodness and nobility.
This view is opposed by Thomists and others who espouse a natural law view of morality, or consider that divine goodness ought to be congruent with human virtue and rationality.
Instead, his writings offer bright glimpses into the moral beauty of divine goodness, what Lewis called "the weight of glory."
But when learning of John's secret plan to marry Grace Murray, he was sharply disapproving: "He (John) is insensible of both his own folly and danger, and of the divine goodness in so miraculously saving him."
The philosopher Søren Kierkegaard claimed that divine omnipotence cannot be separated from divine goodness.
And from this most happy deliverance, I am, through the divine goodness, principally indebted to my honored friend, general Marion, of whose noble sentiments, on these subjects, I beg leave to give the reader some little specimen in the next chapter.
Such is the attitude inculcated in God's answer to Job out of the whirlwind: the divine power and knowledge are paraded, but of the divine goodness there is no hint.