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The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work, but in the excellence of the work he produces.
Thomas Aquinas
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Thomas Aquinas
Age: 49 †
Born: 1225
Born: February 1
Died: 1274
Died: March 14
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God has no need for our worship. It is we who need to show our gratitude for what we have received.
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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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The only-begotten Son of God, wanting to make us sharers in His divinity, assumed our nature, so that He, made man, might make men gods.
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Peace is the work of justice indirectly, in so far as justice removes the obstacles to peace but it is the work of charity (love) directly, since charity, according to its very notion, causes peace.
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Thus Angels' Bread is made The Bread of man today: The Living Bread from Heaven With figures doth away: O wondrous gift indeed! The poor and lowly may Upon their Lord and Master feed.
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The minister to whom confession is made is the delegate of Christ, Who is the Judge of the living and the dead.
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Charity is love not all love is charity.
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It is only God who creates. Man merely rearranges.
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Three conditions are necessary for Penance: contrition, which is sorrow for sin, together with a purpose of amendment confession of sins without any omission and satisfaction by means of good works.
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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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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 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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As the saints will rejoice in all goods, so will the damned grieve for all goods.
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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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Mistakes are made on two counts: an argument is either based on error or incorrectly developed.
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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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