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• Reason in man is rather like God in the world.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Philosophical, Knowledge, Men

  Saint Thomas Aquinas (1951). “Philosophical Texts”, London : Oxford University Press

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• It is necessary to posit something which is necessary of itself, and has no cause of its necessity outside of itself but is the cause of necessity in other things. And all people call this thing God.

  Thomas Aquinas

  People, Causes

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• Charity is love; not all love is charity.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Love Is, Charity

  Saint Thomas (Aquinas) (1955). “Theological texts”

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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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  Sea, Wish, Christianity

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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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  Angel, Men, Illumination

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• To the Everlasting Father, And the Son who made us free And the Spirit, God proceeding From them Each eternally, Be salvation, honour, blessing, Might and endless majesty.

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  Father, Son, Blessing

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• A thing is lovable according as it is good. But God is infinite good. Therefore He is infinitely lovable.

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  Infinite, Lovable

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• God should not be called an individual substance, since the principle of individuation is matter.

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  Substance, Matter, Individual

  "St. Thomas Aquinas: Philosophical Texts".

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• They also have at that critical point of death the opportunity to be converted to God through repentance. And if they are so obstinate that even at the point of death their heart does not draw back from malice, it is possible to make a quite probable judgment that they would never come away from evil.

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  Heart, Opportunity, Evil

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• This Blood that but one drop of has the power to win all the world forgiveness of its world of sin.

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  Forgiveness, Winning, Blood

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• For it is necessary in every practical science to proceed in a composite (i.e. deductive) manner. On the contrary in speculative science, it is necessary to proceed in an analytical manner by breaking down the complex into elementary principles.

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  Science, Scientific Method, Principles

  Saint Thomas Aquinas (1993). “Commentary on Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics”, St. Augustine's Press

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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.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Christian, Believe, Mean

  Saint Thomas (Aquinas), Stephen F. Brown (1999). “On Faith and Reason”, p.19, Hackett Publishing

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• The world of pure spirits stretches between the divine nature and the world of human beings; because divine wisdom has ordained that the higher should look after the lower, angels execute the divine plan for human salvation: they are our guardians, who free us when hindered and help to bring us home.

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  Angel, Home, Divine Wisdom

  Saint Thomas (Aquinas) (1955). “Theological texts”

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• Reasoning is compared to understanding as movement is to rest, or acquisition to possession.... Since movement always proceeds from something immovable, and ends in something at rest, hence it is that human reasoning, in the order of inquiry and discovery, proceeds from certain things absolutely understood--namely, the first principles; and, again, in the order of judgment, returns by analysis to first principles, in the light of which it examines what it has found. Now it is clear that rest and movement are not to be referred to different powers, but to one and the same.

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  Light, Discovery, Order

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• If a thing can be done adequately by means of one, it is superfluous to do it by means of several; for we observe that nature does not employ two instruments [if] one suffices.

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  Mean, Two, Done

  Thomas Aquinas, Anton C. Pegis (1997). “Basic Writings of St. Thomas Aquinas, Volume 2”, p.129, Hackett Publishing

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• It is due to neither impotence nor ignorance on God’s part that evils occur in the world, but it is owing to the order of his wisdom and to the greatness of his goodness, whence come the many and divers grades of goodness in things, many of which would be lacking were he to allow no evil to exist. Thus there would be no good of patience without the evil of persecution, nor the good of the preservation of its life in a lion, without the evil of the destruction of the animals on which it lives.

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  Ignorance, Greatness, Animal

  "'De Potentia' ('On Power')". Book by Thomas Aquinas, q. 3, art. 6, ad 4, dhspriory.org.

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• All that is true, by whomsoever it has been said has its origin in the Spirit.

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  Philosophical, Spirit, Said

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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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  Men, Angry Man, Accounts

  St Thomas Aquinas (2013). “Summa Theologica, Volume 1”, p.16, Cosimo, Inc.

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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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  Art, Lying, Shadow

  Saint Thomas (Aquinas), Mary T. Clark (2000). “An Aquinas Reader”, p.441, Fordham Univ Press

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• If anyone without the right faith receives Baptism outside the Church, he does not receive it unto salvation ... From the comparison of the Church to Paradise, we learn that men can receive her Baptism even outside her fold, but that out there no one can receive or keep the salvation of the blessed.

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  Blessed, Men, Baptism

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• The theologian considers sin mainly as an offence against God; the moral philosopher as contrary to reasonableness.

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  Powerful, Philosopher, Moral

  Saint Thomas Aquinas (1951). “Philosophical Texts”, London : Oxford University Press

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• The human race was in need of salvation because of the perversity of sin. For when people who are ill are cured from their illness, they are called "saved." Therefore, the Lord says: "Your faith has saved you.

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  Race, People, Needs

  Saint Thomas (Aquinas) (2010). “The Academic Sermons (The Fathers of the Church, Mediaeval Continuation, Volume 11)”, p.47, CUA Press

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• I cannot understand how anyone conscious of mortal sin can laugh or be merry.

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  Laughing, Sin, Conscious

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• Charity, by which God and neighbor are loved, is the most perfect friendship.

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  Perfect, Charity, Neighbor

  "Quaestiones disputatae: De caritate (Disputed Questions: On Charity)". Book by Thomas Aquinas, circa 1270.

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• But man is freer than all the animals, on account of his free-will, with which he is endowed above all other animals.

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  Animal, Men, Free Will

  St Thomas Aquinas (2013). “Summa Theologica, Volume 2 (Part II, First Section)”, p.996, Cosimo, Inc.

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