Excerpt from Our Goodly Heritage: Papers on Some Catholic Doctrines

God's plan for us is deep and wide - deep and wide and all-embracing as the love with which He made us. It takes in at once His own glory and our supreme happiness. Divine love was the motive that determined God to create the race of men - that we might fill the thrones left vacant by the rebel angels, who, madly misusing the noble faculty of free choice, threw away, knowingly and deliberately, their proffered bliss, because they would not give to their Maker that service which is more honourable to the giver than sovereignty over worlds.

All-sufficing to Himself, needing none other for His own perfect and illimitable happiness, yet God willed that others also should have a share therein.

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