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The things that we love tell us what we are.
Thomas Aquinas
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Thomas Aquinas
Age: 49 †
Born: 1225
Born: February 1
Died: 1274
Died: March 14
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How is it they live in such harmony the billions of stars - when most men can barely go a minute without declaring war in their minds about someone they know.
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Devotion is a certain act of the will by which man gives himself promptly to divine service.
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Give, expecting nothing there of.
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Beware the man of a single book.
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Wonder is the desire of knowledge.
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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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The Blessed Eucharist is the perfect Sacrament of the Lord's Passion, since It contains Christ Himself and his Passion.
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All my words are but chaff next to the faith of a simple man.
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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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There is but one Church in which men find salvation, just as outside the ark of Noah it was not possible for anyone to be saved.
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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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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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There is within every soul a thirst for happiness and meaning.
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We can't have full knowledge all at once. We must start by believing then afterwards we may be led on to master the evidence for ourselves.
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Mercy without justice is the mother of dissolution justice without mercy is cruelty.
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He who does not embrace the teaching of the Church does not have the habit of faith.
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We set forth our petitions before God, not in order to make known to Him our needs and desires, but rather so that we ourselves may realize that in these things it is necessary to turn to God for help.
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Not everyone who is enlightened by an angel knows that he is enlightened by him.
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Man is closer to God according to his existence in grace than he is according to his existence in nature.
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The custom of the Church has very great authority and ought to be jealously observed in all things.
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