I cannot understand how anyone conscious of mortal sin can laugh or be merry. — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Greed is a sin against God, just as all mortal sins, in as much as man condemns things eternal for the sake… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Without sanctifying grace it is not possible to refrain long from mortal sin. — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Jesus Lord, kind Pelican, Cleanse my filth with Thy blood, One drop of which can save The whole world from all its… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Three conditions are necessary for Penance: contrition, which is sorrow for sin, together with a purpose of amendment; confession of sins without… — 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
It [covetousness] is a sin against God, just as all mortal sins, in as much as man condemns things eternal for the… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone… — 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
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
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
It must be said that charity can, in no way, exist along with mortal sin. — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
All men are equal in nature, and also in original sin. It is in the merits and demerits of their actions that… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
This Blood that but one drop of has the power to win all the world forgiveness of its world of sin. — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
In the realm of evil thoughts none induces to sin as much as do thoughts that concern the pleasure of the flesh. — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
It is a sin to regard the fact that God cannot do the impossible as a limitation on his powers. — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
The theologian considers sin mainly as an offence against God; the moral philosopher as contrary to reasonableness. — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
The human race was in need of salvation because of the perversity of sin. For when people who are ill are cured… — 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
Man can sin against nature in two ways. First, when he sins against his specific rational nature, acting contrary to reason. In… — 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
Given the sin of impiety through which they [the Romans] sinned against the divine nature [by idolatry], the punishment that led them… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
The magnitude of the punishment matches the magnitude of the sin. Now a sin that is against God is infinite; the higher… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
It is altogether unlawful to kill oneself... Wherefore suicide is contrary to the inclination of nature, and to charity whereby every man… — 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
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
It would seem that the ingratitude, whereby a subsequent sin causes the return of sins previously forgiven, is a special sin. For,… — 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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