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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 theologian considers sin mainly as an offence against God the moral philosopher as contrary to reasonableness.
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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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In the realm of evil thoughts none induces to sin as much as do thoughts that concern the pleasure of the flesh.
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He that obstinately denieth the truth before men upon earth, wilfully refuseth his soul's health in heaven.
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All my words are but chaff next to the faith of a simple man.
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