Thomas Aquinas Quotes

When the devil is called the god of this world, it is not because he made it, but because we serve him with our worldliness.

Thomas Aquinas

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• Patience! Patience! The world is a vast and ghastly intricacy of mechanism, and one has to be very wary, not to get mangled by it.

  

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• When the devil is called the god of this world, it is not because he made it, but because we serve him with our worldliness.

  

  Thomas Aquinas
  • World
  • Serve
  • Wordliness