Thomas Aquinas Quotes
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To convert somebody go and take them by the hand and guide them.
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All the efforts of the human mind cannot exhaust the essence of a single fly.
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The proper task of the Savior is that he is a savior; indeed, for this he came into the world: to seek and save what was lost.
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Every cell in us worships God.
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Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice.
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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.
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Thus Angels' Bread is made The Bread of man today: The Living Bread from Heaven With figures doth away: O wondrous gift indeed! The poor and lowly may Upon their Lord and Master feed.
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A person is disposed to an act of choice by an angel ... in two ways. Sometimes, a man's understanding is enlightened by an angel to know what is good, but it is not instructed as to the reason why ... But sometimes he is instructed by angelic illumination, both that this act is good and as to the reason why it is good.
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The soul is perfected by knowledge and virtue.
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All my words are but chaff next to the faith of a simple man.
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Do not wish to jump immediately from the streams to the sea, because one has to go through easier things to the more difficult.
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There must be must be a first mover existing above all – and this we call God.
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How can we live in harmony? First we need to know we are all madly in love with the same God.
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Mary means Star of the sea, for as mariners are guided to port by the ocean star, so Christians attain to glory through Mary's maternal intercession.
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He who achieves power by violence does not truly become lord or master.
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To live well is to work well, to show a good activity.
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A man does not always choose what his guardian angel intends.
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Without sanctifying grace it is not possible to refrain long from mortal sin.
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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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Without doubt one is allowed to resist against the unjust aggressor to one's life, one's goods or one's physical integrity; sometimes, even 'til the aggressor's death... In fact, this act is aimed at preserving one's life or one's goods and to make the aggressor powerless. Thus, it is a good act, which is the right of the victim.
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Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.
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Every truth without exception- and whoever may utter it- is from the Holy Spirit.
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The knowledge of God is the cause of things. For the knowledge of God is to all creatures what the knowledge of the artificer is to things made by his art.
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O saving Victim, opening wide The gate of heaven to man below, Our foes press on from every side, Thine aid supply, Thy strength bestow.