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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
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Saint Thomas Aquinas
Saint Thomas
Tommaso d'Aquino
Thomas of Aquino
St Thomas Aquinas
St. Thomas Aquinas
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If, then, you are looking for the way by which you should go, take Christ, because He Himself is the way.
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We can't have full knowledge all at once. We must start by believing then afterwards we may be led on to master the evidence for ourselves.
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There can be no joy in living without joy in work.
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Prostitution in the towns is like the cesspool in the palace take away the cesspool and the palace will become an unclean and evil smelling-place.
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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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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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Whenever God wakes in us, our thinking becomes clear - nothing is missing.
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If all the sins of the flesh are worthy of condemnation because by them man allows himself to be dominated by that which he has of the animal nature, much more deserving of condemnation are the sins against nature by which man degrades his own animal nature.
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The greatness of the human being consists in this: that it is capable of the universe.
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Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them.
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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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It must be said that charity can, in no way, exist along with mortal sin.
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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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It is not possible to be ignorant of the end of things if we know their beginning.
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Love works in a circle, for the beloved moves the lover by stamping a likeness, and the lover then goes out to hold the beloved inreality. Who first was the beginning now becomes the end of motion.
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Distinctions drawn by the mind are not necessarily equivalent to distinctions in reality.
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The things we love tell us who we are.
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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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To teach in order to lead others to faith is the task of every preacher and of each believer.
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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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