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Beauty adds to goodness a relation to the cognitive faculty: so that "good" means that which simply pleases the appetite; while the "beautiful" is something pleasant to apprehend.
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The meaning of what is said is according to the motive for saying it: because things are not subject to speech, but speech to things. Therefore we should take account of the motive of the lawgiver, rather than of his very words.
Thomas Aquinas
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Man is closer to God according to his existence in grace than he is according to his existence in nature.
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Love works in a circle, for the beloved moves the lover by stamping a likeness, and the lover then goes out to hold the beloved inreality. Who first was the beginning now becomes the end of motion.
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Better to illuminate than merely to shine; to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate.
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The highest perfection of human life consists in the mind of man being detached from care, for the sake of God.
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The same fire" (which he decides to be material) " torments the damned in hell and the just in purgatory...The least pain in purgatory exceeds the greatest in this life.
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Behold our refutation of the error. It is not based on documents of faith, but on the reasons and statements of the philosophers themselves. If then anyone there be who, boastfully taking pride in his supposed wisdom, wishes to challenge what we have written, let him not do it in some corner nor before children who are powerless to decide on such difficult matters. Let him reply openly if he dare. He shall find me there confronting him, and not only my negligible self, but many another whose study is truth.
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The Angel's bread is made the Bread of man today.
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To convert somebody go and take them by the hand and guide them.
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Whatever a man has in superabundance is owed, of natural right, to the poor for their sustenance.
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Concerning perfect blessedness which consists in a vision of God.
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It must be said that charity can, in no way, exist along with mortal sin.
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Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them.
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An angel can illumine the thought and mind of man by strengthening the power of vision and by bringing within his reach some truth which the angel himself contemplates.
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A man's heart is right when he wills what God wills.
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Human salvation demands the divine disclosure of truths surpassing reason.
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Eternity is called whole, not because it has parts, but because it is lacking in nothing.
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There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.
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Of all the pursuits open to men, the search for wisdom is most perfect, more sublime, more profitable, and more full of joy.
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It is appropriate that the Body and Blood of Christ be truly present in this Sacrament because of the perfection of the New Covenant. The sacrifices of the Old Covenant contained the true sacrifice of Christ's Passion only in symbol....Therefore it was necessary that the sacrifice of the New Covenant, instituted by Christ, have something more, namely, that it contain Christ Himself who has suffered and contain Him not only in symbol but in reality.
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Baptism is the door of the spiritual life and the gateway to the sacraments.
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There must be must be a first mover existing above all – and this we call God.
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All men are equal in nature, and also in original sin. It is in the merits and demerits of their actions that they differ.
Thomas Aquinas