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Faith is God's work within us.

Thomas Aquinas

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Thomas Aquinas
Age: 49 †
Born: 1225
Born: February 1
Died: 1274
Died: March 14
Dominican Friar
Philosopher
Priest
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Roman Catholic Priest
Theologian
Saint Thomas Aquinas
Saint Thomas
Tommaso d'Aquino
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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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It [covetousness] is a sin against God, just as all mortal sins, in as much as man condemns things eternal for the sake of temporal things.
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The Cross to me is certain salvation. The Cross is that which I ever adore. The Cross of the Lord is with me. The Cross is my refuge.
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Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.
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By the divine providence [animals] are intended for man's use... Hence it is not wrong for man to make use of them, either by killing or in any other way whatsoever.
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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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All my words are but chaff next to the faith of a simple man.
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God is not related to creatures as though belonging to a different genus, but as transcending every genus, and as the principle of all genera.
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Not everyone who is enlightened by an angel knows that he is enlightened by him.
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Prostitution in the towns is like the cesspool in the palace take away the cesspool and the palace will become an unclean and evil smelling-place.
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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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Devotion is a certain act of the will by which man gives himself promptly to divine service.
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The world of pure spirits stretches between the divine nature and the world of human beings because divine wisdom has ordained that the higher should look after the lower, angels execute the divine plan for human salvation: they are our guardians, who free us when hindered and help to bring us home.
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Hold firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this, and you dissolve the unity of the Church.
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Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice.
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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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