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Love Quotes by Thomas Aquinas

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Thomas Aquinas describes love as a binding force that joins people together and makes them cherish each other. He also calls the Eucharist a sacrament that creates and shows love, linking it to spiritual life. In another view, he says grace perfects nature instead of destroying it, and that love can be a form of charity.

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Charity is love; not all love is charity.

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The soul is known by it's acts.

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Faith is God's work within us.

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To love is to will the good of the other.

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Love follows knowledge.

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Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

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The things we love tell us who we are.

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Better to illuminate, than merely to shine.

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God destines us for an end beyond the grasp of reason.

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Eternity is called whole, not because it has parts, but because it is lacking in nothing.

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Grace does not destroy nature, it perfects it.

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There is within every soul a thirst for happiness and meaning.

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We should love others truly, for their own sakes rather than our own.

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Any error about creation also leads to an error about God.

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Love is a binding force, by which another is joined to me and cherished by myself.

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True peace consists in not separating ourselves from the will of God.

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I receive Thee ransom of my soul. For love of Thee have I studied and kept vigil toiled preached and taught…

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An act of love always tends towards two things; to the good that one wills, and to the person for whom one…

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How can we live in harmony? First we need to know we are all madly in love with the same God.

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O how unspeakable is this Sacrament which sets our affections ablaze with charity. ... It is the fulfillment of Christ's Mystical Body.

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One aspect of neighbourly love is that we must not merely will our neighbours good, but actually work to bring it about.

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I cannot go on… All that I have written seems to me like so much straw compared to what I have seen…

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Now, nothing can be brought from potentiality to actual existence except through something actually existing

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For loving draws us more to things than knowing does, since good is found by going to the thing, whereas the true…

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Love works in a circle, for the beloved moves the lover by stamping a likeness, and the lover then goes out to…

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We ought to cherish the body. Our body's substance is not from an evil principle, as the Manicheans imagine, but from God.…

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Pain itself can be pleasurable accidentally in so far as it is accompanied by wonder, as in stage-plays; or in so far…

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One day when Thomas Aquinas was preaching to the local populace on the love of God, he saw an old woman listening…

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The Sacrament of the Body of the Lord puts the demons to flight, defends us against the incentives to vice and to…

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Give us, O Lord, a steadfast heart, which no unworthy affection may drag downwards; give us an unconquered heart, which no tribulation…

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“The emotion of love is an affective emotion, directly reacting to goodness, rather than an aggressive one, reacting to challenge. Not only…

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“What causes love, since it is a passion, is its object; and since it is a sort of affinity or agreement with…

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No man truly has joy unless he lives in love.

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Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.

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The things that we love tell us what we are.

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I can write no more. All that I have written seems like straw.

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To virginity is awarded the tribute of the highest beauty

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It would seem that zeal is not an effect of love. For zeal is a beginning of contention.

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It is only God who creates. Man merely rearranges.

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Love must precede hatred, and nothing is hated save through being contrary to a suitable thing which is loved. And hence it…

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The image of God always abides in the soul, whether this image be obsolete and clouded over as to amount to almost nothing; or…

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