as opposed to each other, particularly because obedience to God’s law seems to limit human freedom, imposing an extraneous authority from the outside (“heteronomy”). John Paul II explains that human freedom finds it true meaning and fulfillment when “human reason and human will participate in God’s wisdom and providence” (41.2). Obedience to God’s law is like discovering and following light in a dark place, leading the person who follows the light to Light itself—God and his Kingdom! St. Thomas Aquinas