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Life Quotes by Thomas Aquinas
- The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of…
- 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...…
- Without the suitable conditions life could not exist. But both life and its conditions set forth the operations of inscrutable Power. We know not its…
- Without doubt one is allowed to resist against the unjust aggressor to one's life, one's goods or one's physical integrity; sometimes, even 'til the aggressor's…
- The Eucharist is the Sacrament of Love; It signifies Love, It produces love. The Eucharist is the consummation of the whole spiritual life.
- The same fire" (which he decides to be material) " torments the damned in hell and the just in purgatory...The least pain in purgatory exceeds…
- The Sacrament of the Body of the Lord puts the demons to flight, defends us against the incentives to vice and to concupiscence, cleanses the…
- In the life of the body a man is sometimes sick, and unless he takes medicine, he will die. Even so in the spiritual life…
- Just as a man cannot live in the flesh unless he is born in the flesh, even so a man cannot have the spiritual life…
- The fact that the evil ones, as long as they live, can be corrected from their errors does not prohibit that they may be justly…
- Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are…
- There is, therefore, a more perfect intellectual life in the angels. In them the intellect does not proceed to self-knowledge from anything exterior, but knows…
- For in order that man may do well, whether in the works of the active life, or in those of the contemplative life, he needs…
- The soul is like an uninhabited world that comes to life only when God lays His head against us.
- It is not theft, properly speaking, to take secretly and use another's property in a case of extreme need: because that which he takes for…
- The happy man in this life needs friends.
More Life Quotes
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle