Evil denotes the lack of good. Not every absence of good is an evil, for absence may be taken either in a… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
He who achieves power by violence does not truly become lord or master. — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
There is, therefore, a more perfect intellectual life in the angels. In them the intellect does not proceed to self-knowledge from anything… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
They also have at that critical point of death the opportunity to be converted to God through repentance. And if they are… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
If a thing can be done adequately by means of one, it is superfluous to do it by means of several; for… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Even as he would be guilty of falsehood who would, in the name of another person, proffer things that are not committed… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Wonder [admiratio astonishment, marvel] is a kind of desire for knowledge. The situation arises when one sees an effect and does not… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
He who does not embrace the teaching of the Church does not have the habit of faith. — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
If you seek patience, you will find no better example than the cross. Great patience occurs in two ways: either when one… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Baptism is the Sacrament of Faith. Now, dead faith does not suffice for salvation .. .Therefore, the Sacrament of Baptism cannot give… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Future contingents cannot be certain to us, because we know them as such. They can be certain only to God whose understanding… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
It seems that God does not exist; because if one of two contraries be infinite, the other would be altogether destroyed. But… — 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
Affirmative precepts are distinguished from negative whenever one is not comprised in the other; thus, that of honoring parents does not comprise… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
The fire of hell is called eternal, only because it never ends. Still, there is change in the pains of the lost...… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
If a man deliberately abstains from wine to such an extent that he does serious harm to his nature, he will not… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
The fact that the evil ones, as long as they live, can be corrected from their errors does not prohibit that they… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Whatever was in the human nature of Christ was moved at the bidding of the divine will; yet it does not follow… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
For loving draws us more to things than knowing does, since good is found by going to the thing, whereas the true… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
If anyone without the right faith receives Baptism outside the Church, he does not receive it unto salvation ... From the comparison… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
He who is drawn to something desirable does not desire to have it as a thought but as a thing. — 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 Image
“Yet no-one can say that God has not a Word, for it would follow that God is most foolish.” — 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 to death… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Now, nothing can be brought from potentiality to actual existence except through something actually existing — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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