Pray thee, spare, thyself at times: for it becomes a wise man sometimes to relax the high pressure of his attention to… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
It is necessary for the perfection of human society that there should be men who devote their lives to contemplation. — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
It is a sin directly against one's neighbour, since one man cannot over-abound in external riches, without another man lacking them. — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
The only-begotten Son of God, wanting to make us sharers in His divinity, assumed our nature, so that He, made man, might… — 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,… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Man has free choice, or otherwise counsels, exhortations, commands, prohibitions, rewards and punishments would be in vain. — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
The highest perfection of human life consists in the mind of man being detached from care, for the sake of God. — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
For in order that man may do well, whether in the works of the active life, or in those of the contemplative… — 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 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
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
Baptism is the Sacrament of Faith. Now, dead faith does not suffice for salvation .. .Therefore, the Sacrament of Baptism cannot give… — 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
Anger and the like are attributed to God on account of a similitude of effect. Thus, because to punish is properly the… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Whatever a man has in superabundance is owed, of natural right, to the poor for their sustenance. So Ambrosius says, and it… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Secondly, man sins against nature when he goes against his generic nature, that is to say, his animal nature. Now, it is… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
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 greatest kindness one can render to any man consists in leading him from error to truth. — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
How is it they live in such harmony the billions of stars - when most men can barely go a minute without… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
To restore man, who had been laid low by sin, to the heights of divine glory, the Word of the eternal Father,… — 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
“Yet no-one can say that God has not a Word, for it would follow that God is most foolish.” — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share
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
Now, nothing can be brought from potentiality to actual existence except through something actually existing — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share
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
“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
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
Charity, by which God and neighbor are loved, is the most perfect friendship. — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share
Beauty adds to goodness a relation to the cognitive faculty: so that "good" means that which simply pleases the appetite; while the "beautiful" is… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share
“God is not, like creatures, made up of parts. God is spirit, without bodily dimensions. Firstly, no body can cause change without itself being… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share
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