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
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
Angels transcend every religion, every philosophy, every creed. In fact Angels have no religion as we know it... Their existence precedes every… — 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
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
The Sacrament of the Body of the Lord puts the demons to flight, defends us against the incentives to vice and to… — 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
Bestow upon me, O Lord my God, understanding to know thee, diligence to seek thee, wisdom to find thee, and a faithfulness… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Not everyone who is enlightened by an angel knows that he is enlightened by him. — 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
“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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