Thomas Aquinas
Thomas Aquinas
Thomas Aquinas, O.P., was an Italian Dominican friar, Catholic priest, and Doctor of the Church. He was an immensely influential philosopher, theologian, and jurist in the tradition of scholasticism, within which he is also known as the Doctor Angelicus and the Doctor Communis. The name Aquinas identifies his ancestral origins in the county of Aquino in present-day Lazio, where his family held land until 1137...
NationalityItalian
ProfessionTheologian
CountryItaly
men riches sin
It is a sin directly against one's neighbour, since one man cannot over-abound in external riches, without another man lacking them.
wine men serious
If a man deliberately abstains from wine to such an extent that he does serious harm to his nature, he will not be free from blame.
hands mind
There is nothing in your mind which wasn't experienced before hand.
taken character mean
Evil denotes the lack of good. Not every absence of good is an evil, for absence may be taken either in a purely negative or in aprivative sense. Mere negation does not display the character of evil, otherwise nonexistents would be evil and moreover, a thing would be evil for not possessing the goodness of something else, which would mean that man is bad for not having the strength of a lion or the speed of a wild goat. But what is evil is privation; in this sense blindness means the privation of sight.
angel men doe
A man does not always choose what his guardian angel intends.
soul body firsts
The soul, which is the first principle of life, is not a body, but the act of a body; just as heat, which is the principle of calefaction, is not a body, but an act of a body.
evil substance body
We ought to cherish the body. Our body's substance is not from an evil principle, as the Manicheans imagine, but from God. And therefore, we ought to cherish the body by the friendship of love, by which we love God.
giving expecting
Give, expecting nothing there of.
perfect charity neighbor
Charity, by which God and neighbor are loved, is the most perfect friendship.
soul virtue
The soul is perfected by knowledge and virtue.
seductive soul grace
The splendor of a soul in grace is so seductive that it surpasses the beauty of all created things.
science building-up statistics
Practical sciences proceed by building up; theoretical science by resolving into components.
angel men heaven
Thus Angels' Bread is made The Bread of man today: The Living Bread from Heaven With figures doth away: O wondrous gift indeed! The poor and lowly may Upon their Lord and Master feed.
shining contemplation contemplating
Better to illuminate, than merely to shine.