"Impetrate" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... those actions they may achieve certain effects according to the order of the Divine disposition: and the same is to be said of natural causes. And so is it with regard to prayer. For we pray not that we may change the Divine disposition, but that we may impetrate that which God has disposed to be fulfilled by our prayers, in other words "that by asking, men may deserve to receive what Almighty God from eternity has disposed to give," as Gregory says ...
— Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) • Thomas Aquinas |
