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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
Priest
Professor
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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Love
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There would not be a perfect likeness of God in the universe if all things were of one grade of being.
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Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.
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The knowledge of God is the cause of things. For the knowledge of God is to all creatures what the knowledge of the artificer is to things made by his art.
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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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The greatness of the human being consists in this: that it is capable of the universe.
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We can open our hearts to God, but only with Divine help.
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Sin is a spiritual illness thus sinners are in need of salvation.
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God is not related to creatures as though belonging to a different genus, but as transcending every genus, and as the principle of all genera.
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Every cell in us worships 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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It is possible to demonstrate God's existence, although not a priori, yet a posteriori from some work of His more surely known to us.
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As the saints will rejoice in all goods, so will the damned grieve for all goods.
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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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The things we love tell us who we are.
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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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By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments.
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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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Characteristics which define beauty are wholeness, harmony and radiance.
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Anger and the like are attributed to God on account of a similitude of effect. Thus, because to punish is properly the act of an angry man, God's punishment is metaphorically spoken of as His anger.
Thomas Aquinas
The things that we love tell us what we are.
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