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Divine Quotes by Thomas Aquinas
- Human salvation demands the divine disclosure of truths surpassing reason.
- Given the sin of impiety through which they [the Romans] sinned against the divine nature [by idolatry], the punishment that led them to sin against…
- To restore man, who had been laid low by sin, to the heights of divine glory, the Word of the eternal Father, though containing all…
- Even as he would be guilty of falsehood who would, in the name of another person, proffer things that are not committed to him, so…
- The world of pure spirits stretches between the divine nature and the world of human beings; because divine wisdom has ordained that the higher should…
- The greater the charity of the Saints in their heavenly home, the more they intercede for those who are still on their journey and the…
- Believing is an act of the intellect assenting to the divine truth by command of the will moved by God through grace.
- 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 killing…
- Grace renders us like God and a partaker of the divine nature.
- ...[sacred] doctrine is especially based upon arguments from authority, inasmuch as its principles are obtained by revelation: thus we ought to believe on the authority…
- Sacred Scripture, since it has no science above itself, can dispute with one who denies its principles only if the opponent admits some at least…
- Because the divine goodness could not be adequately represented by one creature alone, God produced many and diverse creatures, that what was wanting in one…
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- The ultimate binding element in the medieval order was subordination to the divine will and its earthly representatives, notably the pope. — Irving Babbitt
- The liberty of man consists solely in this, that he obeys the laws of nature because he has himself recognized them as… — Mikhail Bakunin
- Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine. — Hosea Ballou
- St. Paul would say to the philosophers that God created man so that he would seek the Divine, try to attain the… — Hans Urs von Balthasar
- Let us consider that swearing is a sin of all others peculiarly clamorous, and provocative of Divine judgment. — Isaac Barrow
- We glorify the Holy Ghost together with the Father and the Son, from the conviction that He is not separated from the… — Saint Basil
- Even if it were proven that God didn't exist, Religion would still be Saintly and Divine. — Charles Baudelaire