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Love follows knowledge.

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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
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St. Thomas Aquinas
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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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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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Justice is in subjects as well as in rulers.
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By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments.
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The theologian considers sin mainly as an offence against God the moral philosopher as contrary to reasonableness.
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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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It would be superfluous to receive by faith, things that can be known by natural reason
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Obedience unites us so closely to God that it in a way transforms us into Him, so that we have no other will but His. If obedience is lacking, even prayer cannot be pleasing to God.
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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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Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.
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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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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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Charity is love not all love is charity.
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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.
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