If the motion of the earth were circular, it would be violent and contrary to nature, and could not be eternal, since… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Charity is not a potency of the soul, because if it were it would be natural. Nor is it a passion, because… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
In questions of this sort there are two things to be observed. First, that the truth of the Scriptures be inviolably maintained.… — 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
Without the suitable conditions life could not exist. But both life and its conditions set forth the operations of inscrutable Power. We… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Whatever is in motion must be put in motion by another. If that by which it is put in motion be itself… — 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
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
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
If you can live amid injustice without anger, you are immoral as well as unjust. — 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
He who is not angry when there is just cause for anger is immoral. Why? Because anger looks to the good of… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
It must be understood that prime matter, and form as well, is neither generated nor corrupted, because every generation is from something… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
If all the sins of the flesh are worthy of condemnation because by them man allows himself to be dominated by that… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Sacred Scripture, since it has no science above itself, can dispute with one who denies its principles only if the opponent admits… — 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
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
If someone knows from experience that daily Communion increases fervor without lessening reverence, then let him go every day. But if someone… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
It is not possible to be ignorant of the end of things if we know their beginning. — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Baptism is not to be conferred on a man who is unwilling to give up his other sins, so neither should Baptism… — 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
If there were some solitary or feral man, the passions of the soul would be sufficient for him; by them he would… — 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
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
“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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