But we are said to possess what we can freely use or enjoy as we please: and in this way a divine person cannot be possessed, except by a rational creature united to God.
Accordingly God is indeed the last end of a rational creature, as the thing itself; but created beatitude is the end, as the use, or rather fruition, of the thing.
Since a rational creature has, through its free will, control over its actions, as was said above (Q.
Lastly, since all discoursing and arguing includes the use of reason, by this very thing you make the serpent a rational creature.
And then he stroked and slabbered him with kisses, as if the beast had been a rational creature.
Nor were they less surprised than were all those who had hitherto discovered so unaccountable a distraction in one who seemed a rational creature.
Did not God make you a rational creature, that hath an understanding and will to rule all passions?
It is the fault of a rational creature, that had reason given him to do better.
Sidenote: That you are sure of the brevity and vanity of this life: and that the probability or possibility of an endless joy or misery, should command all the care and diligence of a rational creature, against all that can be set against it.
Use thine opinative faculty with all honour and respect, for in her indeed is all: that thy opinion do not beget in thy understanding anything contrary to either nature, or the proper constitution of a rational creature.
Society therefore is the proper good of a rational creature.
In either event the ultimate basis is taken to be the nature of man as a rational creature, expressed in a natural principle of control of things through occupation or in an original contract providing for such ownership.
For the state of nature, let us remember, was a state which expressed the ideal of man as a rational creature.
The nature of man was expressed by certain qualities possessed by him as a moral, rational creature.
Further, it is not a sin to wish to be like unto God: for every creature has a natural desire for this; and especially does this become the rational creature which is made to God's image and likeness.
Again, the order of a rational creature is that it should be under God and above other creatures.
Now this evil is possible to a rational creature considered as to its nature on account of the natural flexibility of the free-will; whereas in the blessed, it becomes impossible, by reason of the perfection of glory.
The farmer, by this time, was convinced I must be a rational creature.
For the visible marks of extraordinary wisdom and power appear so plainly in all the works of the creation, that a rational creature, who will but seriously reflect on them, cannot miss the discovery of a Deity.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rational creature" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
