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• Don't ask who said it? Ask what they said.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Wisdom, Culture, Said

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• The apostles and their successors are God's vicars in governing the Church which is built on faith and the sacraments of faith. Wherefore, just as they may not institute another Church, so neither may they deliver another faith, nor institute other sacraments.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Powerful, Catholic, Church

  St Thomas Aquinas (2013). “Summa Theologica, Volume 4 (Part III, First Section)”, p.2362, Cosimo, Inc.

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• It is altogether unlawful to kill oneself... Wherefore suicide is contrary to the inclination of nature, and to charity whereby every man should love himself... Life is God's gift to man, and is subject to His power, Who kills and makes to live. Hence whoever takes his own life, sins against God... for it belongs to God alone to pronounce sentence of death and life.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Suicide, Suicidal, Men

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• The image of God always abides in the soul, whether this image be obsolete and clouded over as to amount to almost nothing; or whether it be obscured or disfigured, as is the case with sinners; or whether it be clear and beautiful as is the case with the just.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Beautiful, Soul, Obsolete

  "Summa Theologica". Book by Thomas Aquinas, I, q. 93, art. 8, ad 3, 1265 - 1274.

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• To teach in order to lead others to faith is the task of every preacher and of each believer.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Order, Tasks, Teach

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• Whatever a man has in superabundance is owed, of natural right, to the poor for their sustenance. So Ambrosius says, and it is also to be found in the Decretum Gratiani: The bread which you withhold belongs to the hungry: the clothing you shut away, to the naked: and the money you bury in the earth is the redemption and freedom of the penniless.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Men, Redemption, Charity

  "Summa Theologica". Book by Thomas Aquinas, www.theguardian.com. 1485.

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• The fact that the evil ones, as long as they live, can be corrected from their errors does not prohibit that they may be justly executed, for the danger which threatens from their way of life is greater and more certain than the good which may be expected from their improvement.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Errors, Long, Evil

  Thomas Aquinas (1975). “Summa Contra Gentiles: Book 3: Providence”, p.266, University of Notre Dame Pess

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• Love follows knowledge.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Saint Thomas Aquinas (2008). “On Love and Charity: Readings from the Commentary on the Sentences of Peter Lombard (Thomas Aquinas in Translation)”, p.59, CUA Press

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• The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work, but in the excellence of the work he produces.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Art, Work, Lying

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• All the efforts of the human mind cannot exhaust the essence of a single fly.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Philosophical, Thoughtful, Love Is

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• Theology is taught by God, teaches God, and leads to God.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Taught, Teach, Theology

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• We can't have full knowledge all at once. We must start by believing; then afterwards we may be led on to master the evidence for ourselves.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Believe, Saint, May

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• Sloth is sluggishness of the mind which neglects to begin good...it is evil in its effect, if it so oppresses man as to draw him away entirely from good deeds.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Men, Evil, Sloth

  Saint Thomas Aquinas, Catholic Way Publishing (2014). “The Summa Theologica: Complete Edition”, p.5673, Catholic Way Publishing

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• Mistakes are made on two counts: an argument is either based on error or incorrectly developed.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Mistake, Two, Errors

  Saint Thomas (Aquinas) (1960). “St. Thomas Aquinas: Philosophical Texts”

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• The proper effect of the Eucharist is the transformation of man into God.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Faith, Inspiration, Men

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• An act of love always tends towards two things; to the good that one wills, and to the person for whom one wills it.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Two, Acts Of Love, Persons

  Thomas Aquinas (1997). “Basic Writings of St. Thomas Aquinas: Volume One”, p.217, Hackett Publishing

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• It is clear that he does not pray, who, far from uplifting himself to God, requires that God shall lower Himself to him, and who resorts to prayer not to stir the man in us to will what God wills, but only to persuade God to will what the man in us wills.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Uplifting, Christian, Prayer

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• For in order that man may do well, whether in the works of the active life, or in those of the contemplative life, he needs the fellowship of friends.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Men, Contemplative Life, Order

  Saint Thomas Aquinas, Catholic Way Publishing (2014). “The Summa Theologica: Complete Edition”, p.2558, Catholic Way Publishing

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• Wonder [admiratio astonishment, marvel] is a kind of desire for knowledge. The situation arises when one sees an effect and does not know its cause, or when the cause of the particular effect is one that exceeds his power of understanding. Hence, wonder is a cause of pleasure insofar as there is annexed the hope of attaining understanding of that which one wants to know. ... For desire is especially aroused by the awareness of ignorance, and consequently a man takes the greatest pleasure in those things which he discovers for himself or learns from the ground up.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Ignorance, Knowledge, Science

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• I cannot go on.... All that I have written seems to me like so much straw compared to what I have seen and what has been revealed to me.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Goes On, Has Beens, Straws

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• The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Life, Freedom, Inspire

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• All men are equal in nature, and also in original sin. It is in the merits and demerits of their actions that they differ.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Men, Merit, Action

  Saint Thomas (Aquinas) (2015). “Nature and grace: selections from the Summa theologica”, p.109, Aeterna Press

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• The greatness of the human being consists in this:
  that it is capable of the universe.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Greatness, Humans, Human Beings

  "Questiones disputatae: De veritate (Disputed Questions: On Truth)". Book by Thomas Aquinas (Question 1, Article 2, Ad. 4), 1256-1259.

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• If all the sins of the flesh are worthy of condemnation because by them man allows himself to be dominated by that which he has of the animal nature, much more deserving of condemnation are the sins against nature by which man degrades his own animal nature.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Christian, Men, Animal

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  Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Powerful, Passion, Perfection

  St Thomas Aquinas (2013). “Summa Theologica, Volume 1”, p.484, Cosimo, Inc.

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