Thomas Aquinas Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Sometimes love is stronger than a man's convictions.
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If women had to promise to provide for a man for a lifetime before he removed his veil and showed her his smile, would we think of this as a system of female privilege?
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Necessity makes an honest man a knave.
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At 8, I made a pact with God.
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A lazy man works twice as hard. My mother told that to me, and now I say it to my kids. If you're writing an essay, keep it in the lines and in the margins so you don't have to do it over.
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A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.
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God makes stars. I just produce them.
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I consider no man honest who does not observe towards other nations the principles which he desires to be observed towards his own: and therefore I will not interfere in your domestic questions.
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Many Christians do not believe God sends tornadoes. But they do believe that God walks with His children through the storms, that He sends His people to help after the storms, and that with and through God, there is always hope.
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I work in a very tough area of Britain. There is not much hope sociologically where I live and work, they're all sorts of conditions of poverty and deprivation and so on, I really do believe that the message of the kingdom of God is for places like this.
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He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most. God will take care that we do not enjoy it any more than is good for us.
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He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.
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God, who preferred the correction rather than the death of a sinner, did not desire that a homicide be punished by the exaction of another act of homicide.
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Pride and excess bring disaster for man.
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Religion and ritual can be vehicles for entering stillness. It says in Psalm 46:10, 'Be still, and know that I am God.' But they are still just vehicles. The Buddha called his teaching a raft: You don't need to carry it around with you after you've crossed the river.
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If, for 2,000 years, you dress up differently, believe in a different God, celebrate different holidays, and on top of it insist on telling everyone that you're completely different than them, ultimately they'll believe you.
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God does say He will graciously entertain our prayers. He says that if we exercise faith, and if our request is in accordance with His will, He will hear us.
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I hear from many a man around Halloween that's dressed up as Mama for Halloween. It's a great costume.
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I have met hundreds of young people doing just what George Romney did: using a hand up in tough times to become part of the American Dream.
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If you want work well done, select a busy man ‚ the other kind has no time.
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Everything created in the world should be seen in the context of existing for God's glory.
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I've written for The Times because they have valued what I do enough to pay me. The New Statesman magazine also asked me to write an article, but they didn't want to pay me anything. To me, that shows how much they value quality journalism.
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Donald Trump needs mental-health help.
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It is only God who creates. Man merely rearranges.
