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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
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Roman Catholic Priest
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Saint Thomas Aquinas
Saint Thomas
Tommaso d'Aquino
Thomas of Aquino
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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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When the devil is called the god of this world, it is not because he made it, but because we serve him with our worldliness.
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Beware of the person of one book.
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Without doubt one is allowed to resist against the unjust aggressor to one's life, one's goods or one's physical integrity sometimes, even 'til the aggressor's death... In fact, this act is aimed at preserving one's life or one's goods and to make the aggressor powerless. Thus, it is a good act, which is the right of the victim.
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It is requisite for the relaxation of the mind that we make use, from time to time, of playful deeds and jokes.
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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 existence of a prime mover- nothing can move itself there must be a first mover. The first mover is called God.
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The world of pure spirits stretches between the divine nature and the world of human beings because divine wisdom has ordained that the higher should look after the lower, angels execute the divine plan for human salvation: they are our guardians, who free us when hindered and help to bring us home.
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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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If, then, you are looking for the way by which you should go, take Christ, because He Himself is the way.
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There being an imminent danger for the faith, prelates must be questioned, even publicly, by their subjects.
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The greatness of the human being consists in this: that it is capable of the universe.
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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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Happiness is secured through virtue it is a good attained by man's own will.
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Love works in a circle, for the beloved moves the lover by stamping a likeness, and the lover then goes out to hold the beloved inreality. Who first was the beginning now becomes the end of motion.
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The soul is like an uninhabited world that comes to life only when God lays His head against us.
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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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Mistakes are made on two counts: an argument is either based on error or incorrectly developed.
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If you can live amid injustice without anger, you are immoral as well as unjust.
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It is necessary to posit something which is necessary of itself, and has no cause of its necessity outside of itself but is the cause of necessity in other things. And all people call this thing God.
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