Man is closer to God according to his existence in grace than he is according to his existence in nature. — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
The splendor of a soul in grace is so seductive that it surpasses the beauty of all created things. — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Likewise grace and glory are referred to the same genus, since grace is nothing other than a certain first beginning of glory… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
That the saints may enjoy their beatitude and the grace of God more abundantly they are permitted to see the punishment of… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Down in adoration falling, Lo! the sacred Host we hail; Lo! o'er ancient forms departing, Newer rites of grace prevail; Faith for… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Just as a man cannot live in the flesh unless he is born in the flesh, even so a man cannot have… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Without sanctifying grace it is not possible to refrain long from mortal sin. — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Believing is an act of the intellect assenting to the divine truth by command of the will moved by God through grace. — 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 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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