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God Quotes by Thomas Aquinas
- How can we live in harmony? First we need to know we are all madly in love with the same God.
- The theologian considers sin mainly as an offence against God; the moral philosopher as contrary to reasonableness.
- It is possible to demonstrate God's existence, although not a priori, yet a posteriori from some work of His more surely known to us.
- God should not be called an individual substance, since the principal of individuation is matter.
- It is clear that he does not pray, who, far from uplifting himself to God, requires that God shall lower Himself to him, and who…
- The knowledge of God is the cause of things. For the knowledge of God is to all creatures what the knowledge of the artificer is…
- True peace consists in not separating ourselves from the will of God.
- It is altogether unlawful to kill oneself... Wherefore suicide is contrary to the inclination of nature, and to charity whereby every man should love himself...…
- That the saints may enjoy their beatitude and the grace of God more abundantly they are permitted to see the punishment of the damned in…
- We are like children, who stand in need of masters to enlighten us and direct us; God has provided for this, by appointing his angels…
- Now it seems that everything in the world stems from sources other than God, since the products of nature have their source in nature; deliberate…
- The magnitude of the punishment matches the magnitude of the sin. Now a sin that is against God is infinite; the higher the person against…
- Nothing which implies contradiction falls under the omnipotence of God.
- One day when Thomas Aquinas was preaching to the local populace on the love of God, he saw an old woman listening attentively to his…
- 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…
- God has need for our worship. It is we who need to show our gratitude for what we have received.
- Theology is taught by God, teaches God, and leads to God.
- God destines us for an end beyond the grasp of reason.
- Because we cannot know what God is, but only what He is not, we cannot consider how He is but only how He is not.
- Bestow upon me, O Lord my God, understanding to know thee, diligence to seek thee, wisdom to find thee, and a faithfulness that may finally…
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