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It is necessary for the perfection of human society that there should be men who devote their lives to contemplation.
Thomas Aquinas
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Thomas Aquinas
Age: 49 †
Born: 1225
Born: February 1
Died: 1274
Died: March 14
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How can we live in harmony? First we need to know we are all madly in love with the same God.
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Faith will tell us Christ is present, When our human senses fail.
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If you can live amid injustice without anger, you are immoral as well as unjust.
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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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To teach in order to lead others to faith is the task of every preacher and of each believer.
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Faith is God's work within us.
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For just as the first general precepts of the law of nature are self-evident to one in possession of natural reason, and have no need of promulgation, so also that of believing in God is primary and self-evident to one who has faith: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is.
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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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All my words are but chaff next to the faith of a simple man.
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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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To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.
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The fact that the evil ones, as long as they live, can be corrected from their errors does not prohibit that they may be justly executed, for the danger which threatens from their way of life is greater and more certain than the good which may be expected from their improvement.
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Mercy without justice is the mother of dissolution justice without mercy is cruelty.
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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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Now it seems that everything in the world stems from sources other than God, since the products of nature have their source in nature deliberate effects can be traced back to human reason or will as their source. There is no need then to assume that God exists.
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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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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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