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There is within every soul a thirst for happiness and meaning.
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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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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To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.
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To disparage the dictate of reason is equivalent to contemning the command of 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 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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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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It is not possible to be ignorant of the end of things if we know their beginning.
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To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin.
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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 last end of every maker, as such, is himself, for what we make we use for our own sake and if at any time a man make a thing for the sake of something else, it is referred to his own good, whether his use, his pleasure, or his virtue.
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The happy man in this life needs friends.
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The Blessed Eucharist is the perfect Sacrament of the Lord's Passion, since It contains Christ Himself and his Passion.
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The human race was in need of salvation because of the perversity of sin. For when people who are ill are cured from their illness, they are called saved. Therefore, the Lord says: Your faith has saved you.
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Mistakes are made on two counts: an argument is either based on error or incorrectly developed.
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Mercy without justice is the mother of dissolution justice without mercy is cruelty.
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It would seem that zeal is not an effect of love. For zeal is a beginning of contention.
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It is necessary for the perfection of human society that there should be men who devote their lives to contemplation.
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Every cell in us worships God.
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To the Everlasting Father, And the Son who made us free And the Spirit, God proceeding From them Each eternally, Be salvation, honour, blessing, Might and endless majesty.
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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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