Thomas Aquinas Quotes
So, to detract from the perfection of creatures is to detract from the perfection of divine power.
Quotes to Explore
-
I could not tell you the date of my mother's death. I could not tell you the date of my dad's death. These are not dates that I find significant.
-
I think of novels in architectural terms. You have to enter at the gate, and this gate must be constructed in such a way that the reader has immediate confidence in the strength of the building.
-
I always carry lip balm and lipstick. Lipstick is a very important beauty product because I find that lips are the most beautiful feature of anyone's face.
-
As with any moderately famous person, footballers are the source of much gossip. In fact, I'd go as far as to say they are targeted. The fun part as their partner is not knowing who, or what, to believe.
-
I am surrounded by great people.
-
'Where is your million-dollar shirt?' I'm like, 'It's underneath these $25 Hanes T-shirts I've got on.'
-
I love baseball, and the door remains open.
-
While religious tolerance is surely better than religious war, tolerance is not without its liabilities. Our fear of provoking religious hatred has rendered us incapable of criticizing ideas that are now patently absurd and increasingly maladaptive.
-
I like having a bunch of different experiences. I don't want to do just one thing for the rest of my life.
-
I'm so proud of Maryland's firefighters, risking their lives to protect others, but we need to protect our protectors with the best equipment training and resources.
-
My mom would give me a piece to play, but I wouldn't do any theory because when it came time to do it I would sneak back upstairs and watch TV. So, I had these kind of nonchalant lessons for years, then it just started soaking in.
-
He who commands an Apollo flight will not command a second one.
-
Do I believe in arbitration? I do. But not in arbitration between the lion and the lamb, in which the lamb is in the morning found inside the lion.
-
So I try not to have any actual expectations for myself for any level of success or failure.
-
The epic poet collaborates with the spirit of his time in the composition of his work. That is, if he is successful; the time may refuse to work with him, but he may not refuse to work with his time.
-
If the people like watching me, see me as an example of someone succeeding, as a young guy who has the will to win, then I'm happy.
-
If you're a teenager in Palo Alto launching an app, you know from the outset how you plan to finance your business.
-
It was a confusion of ideas between him and one of the lions he was hunting in Kenya that had caused A. B. Spottsworth to make the obituary column. He thought the lion was dead, and the lion thought it wasn't.
-
τὸ μὲν ἁμαρτεῖν μηδὲν ἐν πράγμασι μεγάλοις μεῖζον ἢ κατ' ἄνθρωπόν ἐστι...
-
Persuade thyself that imperfection and inconvenience are the natural lot of mortals, and there will be no room for discontent, neither for despair.
-
People who run for president seriously and people who become president enter a bizarre secret society in which they have had an experience that none of us will ever have.
-
Sanctification means the impartation of the Holy qualities of Jesus Christ. It is His patience, His love, His holiness, His faith, His purity, His godliness, that is manifested in and through every sanctified soul. Sanctification is not drawing from Jesus the power to be holy; it is drawing from Jesus the holiness that was manifested in Him, and He manifests it in me.
-
So, to detract from the perfection of creatures is to detract from the perfection of divine power.
