But in God there is no sensitive appetite, as there is no sensible knowedge. Every passion fixes determinedly on some one object, according to the mode and measure of the passion.
Every passion is the passion of a subject that is in potentiality.
But God is altogether free from potentiality, being pure actuality. Thus every passion, generically as such, is removed from God. But certain passions are removed from God, not only generically, but also specifically. Such a passion is Sadness and Grief, the object of which is evil already attaching to the sufferer. Hope, again, though it has good for its object, is not of good obtained, but to be obtained, a relation to good which is unbefitting for God by reason of His so great perfection, to which addition is impossible.