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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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We can open our hearts to God, but only with Divine help.
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Faith is God's work within us.
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It [covetousness] is a sin against God, just as all mortal sins, in as much as man condemns things eternal for the sake of temporal things.
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The servants of God...whether provoked by word or work, by keeping themselves tranquil and peaceful, evince a perfect nobleness of soul.
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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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Beware of the person of one book.
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Charity brings to life again those who are spiritually dead.
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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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There can be no joy in living without joy in work.
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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 soul is like an uninhabited world that comes to life only when God lays His head against us.
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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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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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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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Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.
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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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Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.
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For those with faith, no evidence is necessary for those without it, no evidence will suffice.
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Man should not consider his material possession his own, but as common to all, so as to share them without hesitation when others are in need.
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