Thomas Aquinas Quotes
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Man can sin against nature in two ways. First, when he sins against his specific rational nature, acting contrary to reason. In this sense, we can say that every sin is a sin against man's nature, because it is against man's right reason.
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There is no leisure about politics.
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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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That the saints may enjoy their beatitude and the grace of God more abundantly they are permitted to see the punishment of the damned in hell.
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Without sanctifying grace it is not possible to refrain long from mortal sin.
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Baptism is the door of the spiritual life and the gateway to the sacraments.
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Charity, by which God and neighbor are loved, is the most perfect friendship.
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Good and evil are essential differences of the act of the will. For good and evil pertain essentially to the will; just as truth and falsehood pertain to the reason, the act of which is distinguished essentially by the difference of truth and falsehood (according as we say that an opinion is true or false.) Consequently, good and evil volition are acts differing in species.
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Give, expecting nothing there of.
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It is unlawful to add anything to the words of Holy Scripture regarding the sense.
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Sacred Scripture, since it has no science above itself, can dispute with one who denies its principles only if the opponent admits some at least of the truths obtained through divine revelation; thus we can argue with heretics from texts in Holy Writ, and against those who deny one article of faith we can argue from another. If our opponent believes nothing of divine revelation, there is no longer any means of proving the articles of faith by reasoning, but only of answering his objections - if he has any - against faith.
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Since faith rests upon infallible truth, and since the contrary of a truth can never be demonstrated, it is clear that the arguments brought against faith cannot be demonstrations, but are difficulties that can be answered.
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If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.
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The minister to whom confession is made is the delegate of Christ, Who is the Judge of the living and the dead.
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Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.
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A man should remind himself that an object of faith is not scientifically demonstrable, lest presuming to demonstrate what is of faith, he should produce inconclusive reasons and offer occasion for unbelievers to scoff at a faith based on such ground.
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Eternity is called whole, not because it has parts, but because it is lacking in nothing.
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I cannot go on.... All that I have written seems to me like so much straw compared to what I have seen and what has been revealed to me.
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The last end of every maker, as such, is himself, for what we make we use for our own sake; and if at any time a man make a thing for the sake of something else, it is referred to his own good, whether his use, his pleasure, or his virtue.
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Law has the power to compel: indeed, the ability to enforce is a condition of the ability to command.
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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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Pray thee, spare, thyself at times: for it becomes a wise man sometimes to relax the high pressure of his attention to work.
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There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.
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A man's heart is right when he wills what God wills.