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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
Love
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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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If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.
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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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Charity is the form, mover, mother and root of all the virtues.
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He who is dying of hunger must be fed rather than taught.
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Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.
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Characteristics which define beauty are wholeness, harmony and radiance.
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What does it take to become a saint? Will it.
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To love God is something greater than to know Him.
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The highest perfection of human life consists in the mind of man being detached from care, for the sake of God.
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In the realm of evil thoughts none induces to sin as much as do thoughts that concern the pleasure of the flesh.
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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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To pretend angels do not exist because they are invisible is to believe we never sleep because we don't see ourselves sleeping.
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In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority of the sovereign... Secondly, a just cause... Thirdly... a rightful intention.
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But man is freer than all the animals, on account of his free-will, with which he is endowed above all other animals.
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How is it they live in such harmony the billions of stars - when most men can barely go a minute without declaring war in their minds about someone they know.
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Future contingents cannot be certain to us, because we know them as such. They can be certain only to God whose understanding is in eternity above time. Just as a man going along a road does not see those who come after him but the man who sees the whole road from a height sees all those who are going along the road at the same time.
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This Blood that but one drop of has the power to win all the world forgiveness of its world of sin.
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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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Human salvation demands the divine disclosure of truths surpassing reason.
Thomas Aquinas
