DP 70
For most people in the world
attribute everything to themselves
and to their own prudence,
and what they cannot attribute to these
they call fortuitous and accidental,
not knowing that human prudence is of no consequence,
and that the words "fortuitous" and "accidental"
are idle terms.
It Is a Law of Divine Providence
That a Person Act in Freedom
in Accordance with His Reason
DP 71
People know that a person has the freedom
to think and will as he pleases,
but not the freedom to say whatever he thinks,
nor the freedom to do whatever he wishes.
Consequently by freedom here
we mean spiritual freedom and not natural freedom,
except when the two are in accord.
For thinking and willing are spiritual,
while speaking and acting are natural.
DP 72
. . . a person . . . has the freedom
to think evil and falsity,
even though Divine providence
continually leads a person
to think and will good and truth . . .
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