Consequently irrational creatures are subject to the eternal law, through being moved by Divine providence; but not, as rational creatures are, through understanding the Divine commandment.
For the law of man extends only to rational creatures subject to man.
But a law cannot be promulgated except to rational creatures, to whom it is possible to make an announcement.
For God knows even the thoughts and affections of hearts, which will be multiplied to infinity as rational creatures go on for ever.
Strictly speaking, therefore, God does not love irrational creatures with the love of friendship; but as it were with the love of desire, in so far as He orders them to rational creatures, and even to Himself.
Like Milton's, it would only contain angels, or men sunk below the dignity of rational creatures.
Let them be taught to respect themselves as rational creatures, and not led to have a passion for their own insipid persons.
And they have that power by their nature and by the nature of rational creatures, before God decrees to create them.
But I am far from agreeing with him there, and I think that in reality, properly speaking, there is incomparably more moral good than moral evil in rational creatures; and of these we have knowledge of but few.
Moreover, the author is still presupposing that false maxim advanced as the third, stating that the happiness of rational creatures is the sole aim of God.
But in that case it may be supposed that since the creation he has been making a circuit of the planets, and dying on the cross for the sins of rational creatures in uninterrupted succession.
It is also no more than just, that we should bear in mind the apparent fitness or otherwise, of these bodies, so far as we are acquainted with them, for the dwelling-place of rational creatures.
Some, however, argue that prayer cannot be peculiar to rational creatures, thus: 1.
Hence prayer belongs neither to the Divine Persons nor to the brute creation, but is peculiar to rational creatures.
Are the people to be blamed, if they have the sense of rational creatures, and can think of things no otherwise than as they find and feel them?
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rational creatures" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
