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Whatever is received is received according to the nature of the recipient.
Thomas Aquinas
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Thomas Aquinas
Age: 49 †
Born: 1225
Born: February 1
Died: 1274
Died: March 14
Dominican Friar
Philosopher
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Roman Catholic Priest
Theologian
Saint Thomas Aquinas
Saint Thomas
Tommaso d'Aquino
Thomas of Aquino
St Thomas Aquinas
St. Thomas Aquinas
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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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By the divine providence [animals] are intended for man's use... Hence it is not wrong for man to make use of them, either by killing or in any other way whatsoever.
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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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The custom of the Church has very great authority and ought to be jealously observed in all things.
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One will observe that all things are arranged according to their degrees of beauty and excellence, and that the nearer they are to God, the more beautiful and better they are.
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Beware the man of a single book.
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Characteristics which define beauty are wholeness, harmony and radiance.
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Nothing created has ever been able to fill the heart of man. God alone can fill it infinitely.
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The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing.
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Mercy without justice is the mother of dissolution justice without mercy is cruelty.
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Even as in the blessed in heaven there will be most perfect charity, so in the damned there will be the most perfect hate. Wherefore as the saints will rejoice in all goods, so will the damned grieve for all goods. Consequently the sight of the happiness of the saints will give them very great pain.
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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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Not everyone who is enlightened by an angel knows that he is enlightened by him.
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It must be said that charity can, in no way, exist along with mortal sin.
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If someone knows from experience that daily Communion increases fervor without lessening reverence, then let him go every day. But if someone finds that reverence is lessened and devotion not much increased, then let him sometimes abstain, so as to draw near afterwards with better dispositions.
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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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It would be superfluous to receive by faith, things that can be known by natural reason
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As the saints will rejoice in all goods, so will the damned grieve for all goods.
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The things that we love tell us what we are.
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The last end of every maker, as such, is himself, for what we make we use for our own sake and if at any time a man make a thing for the sake of something else, it is referred to his own good, whether his use, his pleasure, or his virtue.
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