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Catholic Quotes by Thomas Aquinas
- To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.
- Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become addicted to carnal pleasures.
- The things that we love tell us what we are.
- How can we live in harmony? First we need to know we are all madly in love with the same God.
- If, then, you are looking for the way by which you should go, take Christ, because He Himself is the way.
- It is requisite for the relaxation of the mind that we make use, from time to time, of playful deeds and jokes.
- Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to…
- All the efforts of the human mind cannot exhaust the essence of a single fly.
- The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as…
- Good can exist without evil, whereas evil cannot exist without good.
- Most men seem to live according to sense rather than reason.
- To convert somebody go and take them by the hand and guide them.
- Three conditions are necessary for Penance: contrition, which is sorrow for sin, together with a purpose of amendment; confession of sins without any omission; and…
- Just as in one man there is one soul and one body, yet many members; even so the Catholic Church is one body, having many…
- What does it take to become a saint? Will it.
- In the realm of evil thoughts none induces to sin as much as do thoughts that concern the pleasure of the flesh.
- The only-begotten Son of God, wanting to make us sharers in His divinity, assumed our nature, so that He, made man, might make men gods.
- Believing is an act of the intellect assenting to the divine truth by command of the will moved by God through grace.
- The apostles and their successors are God's vicars in governing the Church which is built on faith and the sacraments of faith. Wherefore, just as…
- It is unlawful to add anything to the words of Holy Scripture regarding the sense.
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- It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching. — Francis of Assisi
- Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self. — Francis of Assisi
- If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe,… — Saint Augustine
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- He that is jealous is not in love. — Saint Augustine