On prayer and the contemplative life · Aquinas, Saint Thomas
2. The Apostle says to the Corinthians: Do all to the glory of
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God. But it belongs to religion to do some things for the glory of God. Hence religion is not a special virtue.
But all kinds of acts, in so far as they are done for the glory of God, come under religion; not, however, as though it elicited them, but inasmuch as it controls them. Those acts, however, come under religion as eliciting them which, by their own specific character, pertain to the service of God.
