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
catholic scripture add
It is unlawful to add anything to the words of Holy Scripture regarding the sense.
powerful catholic church
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.
mean omission catholic
Three conditions are necessary for Penance: contrition, which is sorrow for sin, together with a purpose of amendment; confession of sins without any omission; and satisfaction by means of good works.
son men catholic
The only-begotten Son of God, wanting to make us sharers in His divinity, assumed our nature, so that He, made man, might make men gods.
philosophical evil catholic
Good can exist without evil, whereas evil cannot exist without good.
catholic danger paved-roads
There being an imminent danger for the faith, prelates must be questioned, even publicly, by their subjects.
evil catholic purity-and-love
In the realm of evil thoughts none induces to sin as much as do thoughts that concern the pleasure of the flesh.
powerful ethos catholic
Hold firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this, and you dissolve the unity of the Church.
catholic matter dogma
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.
men catholic reason
Most men seem to live according to sense rather than reason.
catholic saint doe
What does it take to become a saint? Will it.
believe grace catholic
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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If, then, you are looking for the way by which you should go, take Christ, because He Himself is the way.
philosophical hands catholic
To convert somebody go and take them by the hand and guide them.