"Man was created for a certain end. This
end is to praise, to reverence and to serve the Lord his God and by this means
to arrive at eternal salvation. All other beings and objects that surround us
on the earth were created for the benefit of man and to be useful to him, as
means to his final end; hence his obligation to use, or to abstain from the use
of, these creatures, according as they bring him nearer to that end, or tend to
separate him from it."
— St. Ignatius of Loyola, The Spiritual
Exercises of St. Ignatius, p.18
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