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• We should love others truly, for their own sakes rather than our own.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Sake, Should

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

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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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  Fighting, Errors, Numbers

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• Believing is an act of the intellect assenting to the divine truth by command of the will moved by God through grace.

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  Believe, Catholic, Grace

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• Miracles are signs not to them that believe, but to them that believe not.

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  Believe, Miracle, Speaking In Tongues

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• Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

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  Friendship, Philosophical, Real Friends

  Saint Thomas (Aquinas) (1948). “Aquinas Selected Political Writings”

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• The Eucharist is the Sacrament of Love; It signifies Love, It produces love. The Eucharist is the consummation of the whole spiritual life.

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  Love, Christian, Spiritual

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• Better to illuminate than merely to shine; to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate.

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  Powerful, Thoughtful, Love Is

  "Summa Theologica". Book by Thomas Aquinas (Part II-II, Question 188), 1485.

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• Whatever is received is received according to the nature of the recipient.

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  Philosophical

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• In the life of the body a man is sometimes sick, and unless he takes medicine, he will die. Even so in the spiritual life a man is sick on account of sin. For that reason he needs medicine so that he may be restored to health; and this grace is bestowed in the Sacrament of Penance.

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  Spiritual, Men, Medicine

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• Wonder is the desire of knowledge.

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  Desire, Wonder

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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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  Philosophy, Men, May

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• Christ was either liar, lunatic, or Lord!

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  Liars, Christ, Lord

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• God destines us for an end beyond the grasp of reason.

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  Reason, Ends

  Saint Thomas (Aquinas) (1969). “Summa theologiae”

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• Suppose a person entering a house were to feel heat on the porch, and going further, were to feel the heat increasing, the more they penetrated within. Doubtless, such a person would believe there was a fire in the house, even though they did not see the fire that must be causing all this heat. A similar thing will happen to anyone who considers this world in detail: one will observe that all things are arranged according to their degrees of beauty and excellence, and that the nearer they are to God, the more beautiful and better they are.

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  Beautiful, Believe, Fire

  "Sermon-Conferences of St. Thomas Aquinas on the Apostles' Creed". Book by Thomas Aquinas, 13-14, 2005.

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• See to whom Jesus is drawing near, three kinds of people: to those who make peace with him, to those who are devoted to God, and to those who are kind to their neighbors.

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  Jesus, Drawing, People

  Saint Thomas (Aquinas) (2010). “The Academic Sermons (The Fathers of the Church, Mediaeval Continuation, Volume 11)”, p.48, CUA Press

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• He who is dying of hunger must be fed rather than taught.

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  Dying, Taught, Hunger

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• Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.

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  Men, Willpower, Virtue

  Saint Thomas (Aquinas) (1951). “St. Thomas Aquinas: Philosophical Texts”

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• Hold firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this, and you dissolve the unity of the Church.

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  Powerful, Ethos, Catholic

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

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• The celebration of Holy Mass is as valuable as the death of Jesus on the cross.

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  Jesus, Sacrifice, Catholic

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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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  Science, Ignorant, Ends

  Thomas Aquinas (1997). “Basic Writings of St. Thomas Aquinas: Volume One”, p.952, Hackett Publishing

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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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  Integrity, Gun, Doubt

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• He who achieves power by violence does not truly become lord or master.

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  Doe, Violence, Lord

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• In the end, we know God as unknown.

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  Faith, Ends, Knowing God

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• Most men seem to live according to sense rather than reason.

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  Men, Catholic, Reason

  Saint Thomas (Aquinas) (1951). “St. Thomas Aquinas: Philosophical Texts”

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• The existence of a prime mover- nothing can move itself; there must be a first mover. The first mover is called God.

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  Moving, Firsts, Prime

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