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
We ought to cherish the body. Our body's substance is not from an evil principle, as the Manicheans imagine, but from God.… — 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
Good can exist without evil, whereas evil cannot exist without good. — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Prostitution in the towns is like the cesspool in the palace; take away the cesspool and the palace will become an unclean… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Natural inclinations are present in things from God, who moves all things. So it is impossible for the natural inclinations of a… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
It is due to neither impotence nor ignorance on God’s part that evils occur in the world, but it is owing to… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
God himself would not permit evil in this world if good did not come of it for the benefit and harmony of… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Given the sin of impiety through which they [the Romans] sinned against the divine nature [by idolatry], the punishment that led them… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
In the realm of evil thoughts none induces to sin as much as do thoughts that concern the pleasure of the flesh. — 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
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
Sloth is sluggishness of the mind which neglects to begin good...it is evil in its effect, if it so oppresses man as… — 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
Every judgement of conscience, be it right or wrong, be it about things evil in themselves or morally indifferent, is obligatory, in… — 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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