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Thomas Aquinas Inspirational Quotes (179)

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We can open our hearts to God, but only with Divine help.
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All the efforts of the human mind cannot exhaust the essence of a single fly.
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We ought to cherish the body. Our body's substance is not from an evil principle, as the Manicheans imagine, but from God. And therefore, we ought to cherish the body by the friendship of love, by which we love God.
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The knowledge of God is the cause of things. For the knowledge of God is to all creatures what the knowledge of the artificer is to things made by his art.
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To restore man, who had been laid low by sin, to the heights of divine glory, the Word of the eternal Father, though containing all things within His immensity, willed to become small. This He did not by putting aside His greatness but by taking to Himself our littleness.
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Prostitution in the towns is like the cesspool in the palace take away the cesspool and the palace will become an unclean and evil smelling-place.
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God should not be called an individual substance, since the principle of individuation is matter.
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It is not possible to be ignorant of the end of things if we know their beginning.
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Distinctions drawn by the mind are not necessarily equivalent to distinctions in reality.
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Every truth without exception- and whoever may utter it- is from the Holy Spirit.
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Do not wish to jump immediately from the streams to the sea, because one has to go through easier things to the more difficult.
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For just as the first general precepts of the law of nature are self-evident to one in possession of natural reason, and have no need of promulgation, so also that of believing in God is primary and self-evident to one who has faith: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is.
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The human race was in need of salvation because of the perversity of sin. For when people who are ill are cured from their illness, they are called saved. Therefore, the Lord says: Your faith has saved you.
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As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active power of the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex while the production of a woman comes from defect in the active power.
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As the saints will rejoice in all goods, so will the damned grieve for all goods.
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Angels transcend every religion, every philosophy, every creed. In fact Angels have no religion as we know it... Their existence precedes every religious system that has ever existed on Earth.
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How can we live in harmony? First we need to know we are all madly in love with the same God.
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You change people by delight, by pleasure.
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We are like children, who stand in need of masters to enlighten us and direct us God has provided for this, by appointing his angels to be our teachers and guides.
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Human salvation demands the divine disclosure of truths surpassing reason.
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Clearly the person who accepts the Church as an infallible guide will believe whatever the Church teaches.
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Likewise grace and glory are referred to the same genus, since grace is nothing other than a certain first beginning of glory in us.
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God is not related to creatures as though belonging to a different genus, but as transcending every genus, and as the principle of all genera.
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Obedience unites us so closely to God that it in a way transforms us into Him, so that we have no other will but His. If obedience is lacking, even prayer cannot be pleasing to God.
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