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Thomas Aquinas Inspirational Quotes (179)

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Charity is love not all love is charity.
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It would be superfluous to receive by faith, things that can be known by natural reason
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In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority of the sovereign... Secondly, a just cause... Thirdly... a rightful intention.
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The Cross to me is certain salvation. The Cross is that which I ever adore. The Cross of the Lord is with me. The Cross is my refuge.
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Charity, by which God and neighbor are loved, is the most perfect friendship.
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Secondly, man sins against nature when he goes against his generic nature, that is to say, his animal nature. Now, it is evident that, in accord with natural order, the union of the sexes among animals is ordered towards conception. From this it follows that every sexual intercourse that cannot lead to conception is opposed to man's animal nature.
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Mistakes are made on two counts: an argument is either based on error or incorrectly developed.
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To love God is something greater than to know Him.
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To convert somebody go and take them by the hand and guide them.
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The highest perfection of human life consists in the mind of man being detached from care, for the sake of God.
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We must love them both, those whose opinions we share and those whose opinions we reject, for both have labored in the search for truth, and both have helped us in finding it.
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Because we cannot know what God is, but only what He is not, we cannot consider how He is but only how He is not.
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Bestow upon me, O Lord my God, understanding to know thee, diligence to seek thee, wisdom to find thee, and a faithfulness that may finally embrace thee.
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A person is disposed to an act of choice by an angel ... in two ways. Sometimes, a man's understanding is enlightened by an angel to know what is good, but it is not instructed as to the reason why ... But sometimes he is instructed by angelic illumination, both that this act is good and as to the reason why it is good.
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It is not theft, properly speaking, to take secretly and use another's property in a case of extreme need: because that which he takes for the support of his life becomes his own property by reason of that need
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Charity brings to life again those who are spiritually dead.
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Faith will tell us Christ is present, When our human senses fail.
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Justice is in subjects as well as in rulers.
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Characteristics which define beauty are wholeness, harmony and radiance.
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Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of good wine.
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It [covetousness] is a sin against God, just as all mortal sins, in as much as man condemns things eternal for the sake of temporal things.
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All my words are but chaff next to the faith of a simple man.
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Hold firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this, and you dissolve the unity of the Church.
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There must be must be a first mover existing above all – and this we call God.
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