Thomas Aquinas Quotes
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Every truth without exception- and whoever may utter it- is from the Holy Spirit.
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One aspect of neighbourly love is that we must not merely will our neighbours good, but actually work to bring it about.
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Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.
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The truth of the Christian faith surpasses the capacity of reason.
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The happy man in this life needs friends.
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Grace does not destroy nature, it perfects it.
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...sacred doctrine is especially based upon arguments from authority, inasmuch as its principles are obtained by revelation: thus we ought to believe on the authority of those to whom the revelation has been made. Nor does this take away from the dignity of this doctrine, for although the argument from authority based on human reason is the weakest, yet the argument from authority based on divine revelation is the strongest.
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A song is the exultation of the mind dwelling on eternal things, bursting forth in the voice.
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God should not be called an individual substance, since the principle of individuation is matter.
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Anger and the like are attributed to God on account of a similitude of effect. Thus, because to punish is properly the act of an angry man, God's punishment is metaphorically spoken of as His anger.
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The Study of philosophy is not that we may know what men have thought, but what the truth of things is.
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It seems that God does not exist; because if one of two contraries be infinite, the other would be altogether destroyed. But the word "God" means that He is infinite goodness. If, therefore, God existed, there would be no evil discoverable; but there is evil in the world. Therefore God does not exist.
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Godhead here in hiding, whom I adore Masked by these bare shadows, shape and nothing more, See, Lord, at thy service low lies here a heart Lost, all lost in wonder at the God thou art.
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It is a sin to regard the fact that God cannot do the impossible as a limitation on his powers.
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Not everyone who is enlightened by an angel knows that he is enlightened by him.
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Wonder was the motive that led people to philosophy ... wonder is a kind of desire in knowledge. It is the cause of delight because it carries with it the hope of discovery.
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Because we cannot know what God is, but only what He is not, we cannot consider how He is but only how He is not.
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The Church has ever proved indestructible. Her persecutors have failed to destroy her; in fact, it was during times of persecution that the Church grew more and more; while the persecutors themselves, and those whom the Church would destroy, are the very ones who came to nothing. . . .Again, errors have assailed her; but in fact, the greater the number of errors that have arisen, the more has the truth been made manifest. . . . Nor has the Church failed before the assaults of demons: for she is like a tower of refuge to all who fight against the Devil.
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Most men seem to live according to sense rather than reason.
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The light of faith makes us see what we believe.
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Right faith is of necessity required for Baptism, since it is said: "the justice of God is by faith in Jesus Christ" (Romans 3:22) ... Therefore, Baptism without faith avails nothing and thus we must recall that without faith no one is acceptable to God.
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It is not possible to be ignorant of the end of things if we know their beginning.
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It may well happen that what is in itself the more certain on account of the weakness of our intelligence, which is dazzled by the clearest objects of nature; as the owl is dazzled by the light of the sun. Hence the fact that some happen to doubt about articles of faith is not due to the uncertain nature of the truths, but to the weakness of human intelligence; yet the slenderest knowledge that may be obtained of the highest things is more desirable than the most certain knowledge obtained of lesser things.
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God is never angry for His sake, only for ours.