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Not everything that is more difficult is more meritorious.
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
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O saving Victim, opening wide The gate of heaven to man below, Our foes press on from every side, Thine aid supply, Thy strength bestow.
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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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It is requisite for the relaxation of the mind that we make use, from time to time, of playful deeds and jokes.
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When the devil is called the god of this world, it is not because he made it, but because we serve him with our worldliness.
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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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As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active power of the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex while the production of a woman comes from defect in the active power.
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Devotion is a certain act of the will by which man gives himself promptly to divine service.
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Natural inclinations are present in things from God, who moves all things. So it is impossible for the natural inclinations of a species to be toward evil in itself. But there is in all perfect animals a natural inclination toward carnal union. Therefore it is impossible for carnal union to be evil in itself.
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We ought to cherish the body. Our body's substance is not from an evil principle, as the Manicheans imagine, but from God. And therefore, we ought to cherish the body by the friendship of love, by which we love God.
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Happiness is secured through virtue it is a good attained by man's own will.
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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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The minister to whom confession is made is the delegate of Christ, Who is the Judge of the living and the dead.
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