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Thomas Aquinas Quotes

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As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active power of the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex; while the production of a woman comes from defect in the active power  (Thomas Aquinas Quotes) Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious  (Thomas Aquinas Quotes) Hold firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this, and you dissolve the unity of the Church  (Thomas Aquinas Quotes) How can we live in harmony? First we need to know we are all madly in love with the same God  (Thomas Aquinas Quotes) How is it they live in such harmony the billions of stars - when most men can barely go a minute without declaring war in their minds about someone they know  (Thomas Aquinas Quotes) If forgers and malefactors are put to death by the secular power, there is much more reason for excommunicating and even putting to death one convicted of heresy  (Thomas Aquinas Quotes) If, then, you are looking for the way by which you should go, take Christ, because He Himself is the way  (Thomas Aquinas Quotes) In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority of the sovereign. Secondly, a just cause. Thirdly, a rightful intention  (Thomas Aquinas Quotes) The knowledge of God is the cause of things. For the knowledge of God is to all creatures what the knowledge of the artificer is to things made by his art  (Thomas Aquinas Quotes) The principal act of courage is to endure and withstand dangers doggedly rather than to attack them  (Thomas Aquinas Quotes) The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false  (Thomas Aquinas Quotes) To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin  (Thomas Aquinas Quotes) To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible  (Thomas Aquinas Quotes) Because of the diverse conditions of humans, it happens that some acts are virtuous to some people, as appropriate and suitable to them, while the same acts are immoral for others, as inappropriate to them  (Thomas Aquinas Quotes) 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  (Thomas Aquinas Quotes) Because we cannot know what God is, but only what He is not, we cannot consider how He is but only how He is not  (Thomas Aquinas Quotes) Better to illuminate than merely to shine, to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate  (Thomas Aquinas Quotes) Clearly the person who accepts the Church as an infallible guide will believe whatever the Church teaches  (Thomas Aquinas Quotes) 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  (Thomas Aquinas Quotes) If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever  (Thomas Aquinas Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) It is possible to demonstrate God's existence, although not a priori, yet a posteriori from some work of His more surely known to us  (Thomas Aquinas Quotes) It is requisite for the relaxation of the mind that we make use, from time to time, of playful deeds and jokes  (Thomas Aquinas Quotes) Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in the circumstances confronting him  (Thomas Aquinas Quotes) Law is nothing other than a certain ordinance of reason for the common good, promulgated by the person who has the care of the community  (Thomas Aquinas Quotes) Law: an ordinance of reason for the common good, made by him who has care of the community  (Thomas Aquinas Quotes) Love is a binding force, by which another is joined to me and cherished by myself  (Thomas Aquinas Quotes) Love must precede hatred, and nothing is hated save through being contrary to a suitable thing which is loved. And hence it is that every hatred is caused by love  (Thomas Aquinas Quotes) Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become addicted to carnal pleasures  (Thomas Aquinas Quotes)
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