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Things Quotes by Thomas Aquinas
- The things that we love tell us what we are.
- Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand.
- Every judgement of conscience, be it right or wrong, be it about things evil in themselves or morally indifferent, is obligatory, in such wise that…
- 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…
- In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority of the sovereign. Secondly, a just cause. Thirdly, a rightful…
- 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…
- Wonder [admiratio astonishment, marvel] is a kind of desire for knowledge. The situation arises when one sees an effect and does not know its cause,…
- If there were some solitary or feral man, the passions of the soul would be sufficient for him; by them he would be conformed to…
- Do not wish to jump immediately from the streams to the sea, because one has to go through easier things to the more difficult.
- In questions of this sort there are two things to be observed. First, that the truth of the Scriptures be inviolably maintained. Secondly, since Scripture…
- It is not possible to be ignorant of the end of things if we know their beginning.
- 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…
- Greed is a sin against God, just as all mortal sins, in as much as man condemns things eternal for the sake of temporal things,
- It is necessary to posit something which is necessary of itself, and has no cause of its necessity outside of itself but is the cause…
- Now this relaxation of the mind from work consists on playful words or deeds. Therefore it becomes a wise and virtuous man to have recourse…
- Commemoration of Gilbert of Sempringham, Founder of the Gilbertine Order, 1189 Some there are who presume so far on their wits that they think themselves…
- If you seek patience, you will find no better example than the cross. Great patience occurs in two ways: either when one patiently suffers much,…
- 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 custom of the Church has very great authority and ought to be jealously observed in all things.
- 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…
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