Human salvation demands the divine disclosure of truths surpassing reason. — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Law; an ordinance of reason for the common good, made by him who has care of the community. — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
It would be superfluous to receive by faith, things that can be known by natural reason — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Law is nothing other than a certain ordinance of reason for the common good, promulgated by the person who has the care… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
To disparage the dictate of reason is equivalent to contemning the command of God. — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
If forgers and malefactors are put to death by the secular power, there is much more reason for excommunicating and even putting… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
It is not theft, properly speaking, to take secretly and use another's property in a case of extreme need: because that which… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
For just as the first general precepts of the law of nature are self-evident to one in possession of natural reason, and… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Man can sin against nature in two ways. First, when he sins against his specific rational nature, acting contrary to reason. In… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Now it seems that everything in the world stems from sources other than God, since the products of nature have their source… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
In the life of the body a man is sometimes sick, and unless he takes medicine, he will die. Even so in… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
A person is disposed to an act of choice by an angel ... in two ways. Sometimes, a man's understanding is enlightened… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
To be united to God in unity of person was not fitting to human flesh, according to its natural endowments, since it… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
A man should remind himself that an object of faith is not scientifically demonstrable, lest presuming to demonstrate what is of faith,… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Reasoning is compared to understanding as movement is to rest, or acquisition to possession… Since movement always proceeds from something immovable, and… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
What can be accomplished by a few principles is not effected by many. But it seems that everything we see in the… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
...[sacred] doctrine is especially based upon arguments from authority, inasmuch as its principles are obtained by revelation: thus we ought to believe… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Good and evil are essential differences of the act of the will. For good and evil pertain essentially to the will; just… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Just as in a physical body the operation of one member contributes to the good of the whole body, so it is… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Behold our refutation of the error. It is not based on documents of faith, but on the reasons and statements of the… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
“A capacity as such is directed to an act. Wherefore we seek to know the nature of a capacity from the act to which… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share
“Yet no-one can say that God has not a Word, for it would follow that God is most foolish.” — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share
If forgers and malefactors are put to death by the secular power, there is much more reason for excommunicating and even putting to death… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share
Now, nothing can be brought from potentiality to actual existence except through something actually existing — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share
By the divine providence [animals] are intended for man's use... Hence it is not wrong for man to make use of them, either by… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share
“What causes love, since it is a passion, is its object; and since it is a sort of affinity or agreement with the object,… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share
The image of God always abides in the soul, whether this image be obsolete and clouded over as to amount to almost nothing; or… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share
Charity, by which God and neighbor are loved, is the most perfect friendship. — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share
Beauty adds to goodness a relation to the cognitive faculty: so that "good" means that which simply pleases the appetite; while the "beautiful" is… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share
“God is not, like creatures, made up of parts. God is spirit, without bodily dimensions. Firstly, no body can cause change without itself being… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share
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