Thomas Aquinas Quotes

As the saints will rejoice in all goods, so will the damned grieve for all goods.

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• Latter-day Saints, having received the gift of the Holy Ghost by the laying on of hands, are entitled to personal inspiration in the small events of life as well as when they are confronted with the giant Goliaths of life.

  

  James E. Faust
  • Life
  • Inspiration
  • Saints

• I don't write about anything I don't want to write about. I like to think I could write about anything pretty much that I chose to. I have been asked to write songs about specific things, and I've always been able to come up with the goods.

  

  Loudon Wainwright III
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • Things

• Jesus Christ carries on intercession for us in heaven; the Holy Ghost carries on intercession in us on earth; and we the saints have to carry on intercession for all men.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Men
  • Earth
  • Jesus

• Human nature, if healthy, demands excitement; and if it does not obtain its thrilling excitement in the right way, it will seek it in the wrong. God never makes bloodless stoics; He makes no passionless saints.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Nature
  • Human

• The prayer of the saints is never self-important, but always God-important.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Important
  • Prayer

• I'm a human being. I'm not a piece of property. I'm not a consignment of goods.

  

  Curt Flood
  • Humans
  • Pieces
  • Property

• He is not rich, that enjoyeth not his own goods.

  

  Pythagoras
  • Own
  • Goods
  • Enjoyeth

• Do not grieve over someone who changes all of the sudden. It might be that he has given up acting and returned to his true self.

  

  Socrates
  • True
  • Changes
  • Grieve

• Searching for precious goods leads astray.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Searching
  • Goods
  • Astray

• The basis of bureaucratic rule is the poverty of society in objects of consumption, with the resulting struggle of each against all. When there is enough goods in a store, the purchasers can come whenever they want to. When there is little goods, the purchasers are compelled to stand in line. When the lines are very long, it is necessary to appoint a policeman to keep order. Such is the starting point of the power of the Soviet bureaucracy. It "knows" who is to get something and who has to wait.

  

  Leon Trotsky
  • Society
  • Soviet
  • Goods

• And indeed, no man has found his religion until he has found that for which he must sell his goods and his life.

  

  William Ernest Hocking
  • Men
  • Found
  • Goods

• God loves the saints as the purchase of his Son's blood. They cost him dear, and that which is so hardly got shall not be easily lost. He that was willing to expend his Son's blood to gain them, will not deny his power to keep them.

  

  William Gurnall
  • God
  • Power
  • Son

• The saints were his friends, and blessed him; the monsters were his friends, and guarded him.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Friends
  • Blessed
  • Saints

• Human life, like all inferior goods, is covered on the outside with a false glitter; what suffers always conceals itself.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Human Life
  • Goods
  • Suffers

• Occasionally we have to interpret an international treaty - one, perhaps, affecting airlines and liability for injury to passengers or damage to goods. Then, of course, we have to look to the precedents of other member nations in resolving issues.

  

  Sandra Day O'Connor
  • Issues
  • Damage
  • Injury

• Even as in the blessed in heaven there will be most perfect charity, so in the damned there will be the most perfect hate. Wherefore as the saints will rejoice in all goods, so will the damned grieve for all goods. Consequently the sight of the happiness of the saints will give them very great pain.

  

  Thomas Aquinas
  • Pain
  • Heaven
  • Blessed

• It is not becoming to grieve immoderately for the dead.

  

  Tacitus
  • Dead
  • Grieve
  • Immoderately

• I am quite ready to acknowledge . . . that I ought to be grieved at death, if I were not persuaded that I am going to other gods who are wise and good, and to men departed who are better than those whom I leave behind. And therefore I do not grieve as I might have done, for I have good hope that there is yet something remaining for the dead.

  

  Socrates
  • Men
  • Hope
  • Death

• But you, Achilles,/ There is not a man in the world more blest than you--/ There never has been, never will be one./ Time was, when you were alive, we Argives/ honored you as a god, and now down here, I see/ You Lord it over the dead in all your power./ So grieve no more at dying, great Achilles.’ I reassured the ghost, but he broke out protesting,/ ‘No winning words about death to me, shining Odysseus!/ By god, I’d rather slave on earth for another man--/ Some dirt-poor tenant farmer who scrapes to keep alive—than rule down here over all the breathless dead.

  

  Homer
  • Winning
  • Rule
  • Ghost

• There's a man in the world who is never turned down, whatever he chances to stray; he gets the glad hand in the populous town, or out where the farmers makes hay; he's greeted with pleasure on deserts of sand, and deep in the aisles of the woods; wherever he goes there's a welcoming hand-he's the man who delivers the goods.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Chances
  • Goods
  • Delivers

• Ask God for what you want, but you cannot ask if you are not asking for a right thing. When you draw near to God, you cease from asking for things."Your Father knows what things you have need of, before you ask him." Then, why ask? That you may get to know Him.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Why
  • May

• There's no 'dumb-ass' vaccine.

  

  Jimmy Buffett
  • Education
  • Dumb
  • Ass

• The way you see and know yourself is also referred to as self-perception.

  

  Benjamin Smith
  • Referred
  • Self-perception

• As the saints will rejoice in all goods, so will the damned grieve for all goods.

  

  Thomas Aquinas
  • Saints
  • Goods
  • Grieve