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
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All the efforts of the human mind cannot exhaust the essence of a single fly.
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That the saints may enjoy their beatitude and the grace of God more abundantly they are permitted to see the punishment of the damned in hell.
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To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.
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Better to illuminate than merely to shine, to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate.
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A man has free choice to the extent that he is rational.
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Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do.
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Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.
philosophical thoughtful love-is
How can we live in harmony? First we need to know we are all madly in love with the same God.
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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.
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Charity is not a potency of the soul, because if it were it would be natural. Nor is it a passion, because it is not in a sensitive potency in which are all passions. Nor is it a habit, because a habit is removed with difficulty; charity, however, is easily lost through one act of mortal sin. Therefore charity is not something created in the soul.
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Sing, my tongue, the Saviour's glory, Of His Flesh, the mystery sing; Of the Blood, all price exceeding, Shed by our Immortal King, Destined, for the world's redemption, From a noble Womb to spring.
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Love works in a circle, for the beloved moves the lover by stamping a likeness, and the lover then goes out to hold the beloved inreality. Who first was the beginning now becomes the end of motion.
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Man is closer to God according to his existence in grace than he is according to his existence in nature.
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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.