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• Gods are called many by the error of some who worshipped many deities, thinking as they did the planets and other stars were gods, and also the separate parts of the world.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Stars, Thinking, Errors

  Saint Thomas Aquinas, Catholic Way Publishing (2014). “The Summa Theologica: Complete Edition”, p.248, Catholic Way Publishing

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• There would not be a perfect likeness of God in the universe if all things were of one grade of being.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Perfect, Grades, All Things

  Thomas Aquinas (1976). “Summa Contra Gentiles, 2: Book Two: Creation”, University of Notre Dame Pess

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• I receive Thee ransom of my soul. For love of Thee have I studied and kept vigil toiled preached and taught.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Soul, Ransom, Taught

  Saint Thomas (Aquinas), Mary T. Clark (2000). “An Aquinas Reader”, p.12, Fordham Univ Press

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• In questions of this sort there are two things to be observed. First, that the truth of the Scriptures be inviolably maintained. Secondly, since Scripture doth admit of diverse interpretations, that no one cling to any particular exposition with such pertinacity that, if what he supposed to be the teaching of Scripture should afterward turn out to be clearly false, he should nevertheless still presume to put it forward, lest thereby the sacred Scriptures should be exposed to the derision of unbelievers and the way of salvation should be closed to them.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Teaching, Two, Sacred Scripture

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• He suddenly announced that he could not write any more since "All that I have written seems like straw to me."

  Thomas Aquinas

  Writing, Straws, Written

  "St. Thomas Aquinas on politics and ethics: a new translation, backgrounds, interpretations".

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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.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Christian, Believe, Doe

  Saint Thomas Aquinas, Catholic Way Publishing (2014). “The Summa Theologica: Complete Edition”, p.68, Catholic Way Publishing

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• God is not related to creatures as though belonging to a different "genus," but as transcending every "genus," and as the principle of all "genera.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Principles, Different, Creatures

  Thomas Aquinas (1997). “Basic Writings of St. Thomas Aquinas: Volume One”, p.41, Hackett Publishing

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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.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Pain, Fire, Hell

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• The Bread of angels has become the Bread of mankind; This heavenly Bread puts an end to all images; O wonderful reality! The poor, the slave, and the humble can eat the Lord.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Humble, Angel, Reality

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• Commemoration of Gilbert of Sempringham, Founder of the Gilbertine Order, 1189 Some there are who presume so far on their wits that they think themselves capable of measuring the whole nature of things by their intellect, in that they esteem all things true which they see, and false which they see not. Accordingly, in order that man's mind might be freed from this presumption, and seek the truth humbly, it was necessary that certain things far surpassing his intellect should be proposed to man by God.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Men, Thinking, Order

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