connatural

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The idea of God is connatural to the human mind.

From Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles by Cocker, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin)

These it realizes gradually, through the exercise of its connatural activities.

From Ontology or the Theory of Being by Coffey, Peter

Thus the human mind has no criterion of truth within itself, no elements of knowledge which are connatural and inborn.

From Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles by Cocker, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin)

These ideas, he held, are not derived from sensation, neither are they generalizations from experience, but they are inborn and connatural.

From Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles by Cocker, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin)

Now among the virtues directed to the connatural end there is but one natural virtue, viz. the understanding of principles.

From Summa Theologica, Part I-II (Pars Prima Secundae) From the Complete American Edition by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint