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To love God is something greater than to know Him.
Thomas Aquinas
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Thomas Aquinas
Age: 49 †
Born: 1225
Born: February 1
Died: 1274
Died: March 14
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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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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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Devotion is a certain act of the will by which man gives himself promptly to divine service.
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Peace is the work of justice indirectly, in so far as justice removes the obstacles to peace but it is the work of charity (love) directly, since charity, according to its very notion, causes peace.
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Human salvation demands the divine disclosure of truths surpassing reason.
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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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The soul, which is the first principle of life, is not a body, but the act of a body just as heat, which is the principle of calefaction, is not a body, but an act of a body.
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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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Every cell in us worships God.
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He who is dying of hunger must be fed rather than taught.
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For those with faith, no evidence is necessary for those without it, no evidence will suffice.
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God himself would not permit evil in this world if good did not come of it for the benefit and harmony of the universe.
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The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing.
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Characteristics which define beauty are wholeness, harmony and radiance.
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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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The highest perfection of human life consists in the mind of man being detached from care, for the sake of God.
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Because we cannot know what God is, but only what He is not, we cannot consider how He is but only how He is not.
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Not everything that is more difficult is more meritorious.
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It is necessary to posit something which is necessary of itself, and has no cause of its necessity outside of itself but is the cause of necessity in other things. And all people call this thing God.
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I cannot understand how anyone conscious of mortal sin can laugh or be merry.
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