Of God and His Creatures 103That there is in God Active Power
Open in the readerCHAPTER VII -- That there is in God Active Power
AS passive power, or passivity, follows upon being in potentiality, so active power follows upon being in actuality; for everything acts by being in actuality, and is acted upon by being in potentiality. But it belongs to God to be in actuality; and therefore there is suitably ascribed to Him active power, but not passive power.
Hence it is said: Thou art powerful, O Lord ( Ps. lxxxviii, 9 ); and Thy power and thy justice, O God, are even to the highest heaven, in the wonders that thou hast made ( Ps. lxx, 18, 19 ).