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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Augustine of Hippo
"Let them be confounded who do vain things unrighteously." Let them be confounded who act unrighteously for the acquiring things that pass away. "Make Your ways, O Lord, known to me, and teach me Your paths" [Psalm 25:4]: not those which are broad, and lead the many to destruction; [Matthew 7:13] but Your paths, narrow, and known to few, teach Thou me.
Ambrose of Milan
Now the ways of the Lord are, we may say, certain courses taken in a good life, guided by Christ, who says, "I am the way, and the truth and the life." The way, then, is the surpassing power of God, for Christ is our way, and a good way, too, is he, a way that has opened the kingdom of heaven to believers. Moreover, the ways of the Lord are straight, as it is written: "Make your ways known to me, O Lord." Chastity is a way, faith is a way, abstinence is a way. …
Thomas Aquinas
"Your ways." Next he asks to be advanced toward good things. And first he presents the petition. Second, the reason for it, at "For you are God." Now there is a twofold good: namely of the active and contemplative life. First, the good of the active life is presented. Second, of the contemplative life, at "Direct me." In the active life there is a twofold manner of proceeding: namely the common way through precepts, and the special way through counsels. …
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