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To convert somebody go and take them by the hand and guide them.
Thomas Aquinas
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Thomas Aquinas
Age: 49 †
Born: 1225
Born: February 1
Died: 1274
Died: March 14
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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 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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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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The image of God always abides in the soul, whether this image be obsolete and clouded over as to amount to almost nothing or whether it be obscured or disfigured, as is the case with sinners or whether it be clear and beautiful as is the case with the just.
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He that obstinately denieth the truth before men upon earth, wilfully refuseth his soul's health in heaven.
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Sin is a spiritual illness thus sinners are in need of salvation.
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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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The things that we love tell us what we are.
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I cannot go on.... All that I have written seems to me like so much straw compared to what I have seen and what has been revealed to me.
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For those with faith, no evidence is necessary for those without it, no evidence will suffice.
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The greatness of the human being consists in this: that it is capable of the universe.
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Characteristics which define beauty are wholeness, harmony and radiance.
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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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Beware the man of a single book.
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Concerning perfect blessedness which consists in a vision of God.
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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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If a man deliberately abstains from wine to such an extent that he does serious harm to his nature, he will not be free from blame.
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The soul, which is the first principle of life, is not a body, but the act of a body just as heat, which is the principle of calefaction, is not a body, but an act of a body.
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If you can live amid injustice without anger, you are immoral as well as unjust.
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You change people by delight, by pleasure.
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