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Now, nothing can be brought from potentiality to actual existence except through something actually existing
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Thomas Aquinas
Age: 49 †
Born: 1225
Born: February 1
Died: 1274
Died: March 14
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Saint Thomas Aquinas
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Tommaso d'Aquino
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The perfection of the effect demonstrates the perfection of the cause, for a greater power brings about a more perfect effect. But God is the most perfect agent. Therefore, things created by Him obtain perfection from Him. So, to detract from the perfection of creatures is to detract from the perfection of divine power.
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Likewise grace and glory are referred to the same genus, since grace is nothing other than a certain first beginning of glory in 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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Mistakes are made on two counts: an argument is either based on error or incorrectly developed.
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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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The existence of a prime mover- nothing can move itself there must be a first mover. The first mover is called God.
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Every cell in us worships God.
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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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Characteristics which define beauty are wholeness, harmony and radiance.
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God has no need for our worship. It is we who need to show our gratitude for what we have received.
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He who is dying of hunger must be fed rather than taught.
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All the efforts of the human mind cannot exhaust the essence of a single fly.
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Every truth without exception- and whoever may utter it- is from the Holy Spirit.
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Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.
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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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Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them.
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If a man deliberately abstains from wine to such an extent that he does serious harm to his nature, he will not be free from blame.
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Any error about creation also leads to an error about God.
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Beware the man of a single book.
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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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