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• For loving draws us more to things than knowing does, since good is found by going to the thing, whereas the true is found when the thing comes to us.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Love, Knowing, Doe

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• Sin is a spiritual illness; thus sinners are in need of salvation.

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  Spiritual, Needs, Sin

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

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• 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, Excellence, Degrees

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

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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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  Facts, Impossible, Sin

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• Venial sin becomes mortal sin when one approves it as an end. . .

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  Sin, Ends, Mortal Sin

  Thomas Aquinas (2003). “On Evil”, p.273, Oxford University Press

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• If... the motion of the earth were circular, it would be violent and contrary to nature, and could not be eternal, since ... nothing violent is eternal .... It follows, therefore, that the earth is not moved with a circular motion.

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  Would Be, Earth, Violent

  "Commentaria in libros Aristotelis de caelo et mundo". Book by Thomas Aquinas, 1886.

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• There being an imminent danger for the faith, prelates must be questioned, even publicly, by their subjects.

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  Catholic, Danger, Paved Roads

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• Faith does not quench desire, but inflames it.

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  Desire, Doe, Quench

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

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• Distinctions drawn by the mind are not necessarily equivalent to distinctions in reality.

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  Powerful, Reality, Mind

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

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• To virginity is awarded the tribute of the highest beauty

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  Tribute, Sacraments, Highest

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• Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder.

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  Love, Fear, Philosophy

  Saint Thomas (Aquinas) (1971). “Saint Thomas Aquinas”

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• Every judgement of conscience, be it right or wrong, be it about things evil in themselves or morally indifferent, is obligatory, in such wise that he who acts against his conscience always sins.

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  Wise, Wisdom, Powerful

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

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• There is no leisure about politics.

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  Leisure

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

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• Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.

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  Powerful, Passion, Character

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• He that obstinately denieth the truth before men upon earth, wilfully refuseth his soul's health in heaven.

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  Men, Heaven, Soul

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• Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

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  Love, Relationship, Philosophical

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

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• Peace is the work of justice indirectly, in so far as justice removes the obstacles to peace; but it is the work of charity (love) directly, since charity, according to its very notion, causes peace.

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  Peace, Justice, Catholic

  THOMAS AQUINAS (1952). “GREAT BOOKS OF THE WESTERN WORLD”

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• Any error about creation also leads to an error about God.

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  Errors, Creation

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• The meaning of what is said is according to the motive for saying it: because things are not subject to speech, but speech to things. Therefore we should take account of the motive of the lawgiver, rather than of his very words.

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  Speech, Should, Said

  Saint Thomas Aquinas, Catholic Way Publishing (2014). “The Summa Theologica: Complete Edition”, p.4380, Catholic Way Publishing

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• In the realm of evil thoughts none induces to sin as much as do thoughts that concern the pleasure of the flesh.

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  Evil, Catholic, Purity And Love

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• God is never angry for His sake, only for ours.

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  Sake, Angry

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• Far graver is it to corrupt the faith that is the life of the soul than to counterfeit the money that sustains temporal life.

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  Soul, Counterfeit

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• Beware the man of a single book.

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  Book, Men, Limitation

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• Just as a man cannot live in the flesh unless he is born in the flesh, even so a man cannot have the spiritual life of grace unless he is born again spiritually. This regeneration is effected by Baptism: "Unless a man is born again of water and the Holy Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God" (Jn 3:5)

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  Spiritual, Men, Water

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• Pray thee, spare, thyself at times: for it becomes a wise man sometimes to relax the high pressure of his attention to work.

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  Wise, Men, Relax

  Saint Thomas Aquinas, Catholic Way Publishing (2014). “The Summa Theologica: Complete Edition”, p.8006, Catholic Way Publishing

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