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Thomas Aquinas
Thomas Aquinas
Italian Theologian
Born: 1225
Died: 1274
God Good He Live Man Mind
Related authors: Albert Schweitzer Dietrich Bonhoeffer Hans Urs von Balthasar John Calvin Mary Baker Eddy Paul Tillich Reinhold Niebuhr William Barclay
Man should not consider his material possession his own, but as common to all, so as to share them without hesitation when others are in need. Thomas Aquinas
Man Own Others Consider Hesitation Possession Share Without Material His Common Them Should Need
Hold firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this, and you dissolve the unity of the Church. Thomas Aquinas
Faith You Church Unity Dissolve Our Ancient Firmly Identical Deny Hold
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 resorts to prayer not to stir the man in us to will what God wills, but only to persuade God to will what the man in us wills. Thomas Aquinas
God Prayer Man Will Wills Only Shall He Clear Him Himself Does Pray Stir Uplifting Far Us Lower Persuade Requires Who
The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work, but in the excellence of the work he produces. Thomas Aquinas
Work Lie Will Excellence He Does Test Goes Artist Which Produces
By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments. Thomas Aquinas
Nature Liberty Men Other Equal Endowment
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 satisfaction by means of good works. Thomas Aquinas
Good Together Confession Three Omission Penance Purpose Good Works Sin Sorrow Without Conditions Sins Amendment Contrition Any Which Means Works Satisfaction Necessary
Love must precede hatred, and nothing is hated save through being contrary to a suitable thing which is loved. And hence it is that every hatred is caused by love. Thomas Aquinas
Love Hatred Nothing Every Suitable Must Hated Through Caused Precede Contrary Being Loved Which Hence Thing Save
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 to things made by his art. Thomas Aquinas
Art God Knowledge Cause Made His Creatures Things
Distinctions drawn by the mind are not necessarily equivalent to distinctions in reality. Thomas Aquinas
Reality Mind Distinctions Drawn Equivalent Necessarily
Human salvation demands the divine disclosure of truths surpassing reason. Thomas Aquinas
Divine Demands Disclosure Surpassing Truths Salvation Human Reason
Clearly the person who accepts the Church as an infallible guide will believe whatever the Church teaches. Thomas Aquinas
Church Will Whatever Believe Guide Clearly Accepts Infallible Person Teaches Who
A man has free choice to the extent that he is rational. Thomas Aquinas
Man Free Free Choice Rational He Choice Extent
To convert somebody go and take them by the hand and guide them. Thomas Aquinas
Somebody Guide Take Go Hand Convert Them
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 of necessity in other things. And all people call this thing God. Thomas Aquinas
God People Cause Other All People Something Outside Call Itself Which Thing Things Necessary Necessity
Most men seem to live according to sense rather than reason. Thomas Aquinas
Men Sense Live Seem Rather Most According Than Reason
Law; an ordinance of reason for the common good, made by him who has care of the community. Thomas Aquinas
Good Law Care Made Community Him Common Common Good Ordinance Reason Who
Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice. Thomas Aquinas
Friendship Justice Science Better Moral Occupied Than Treating
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. Thomas Aquinas
God Consider We Cannot Only He Know Because How Cannot
As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active power of the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex; while the production of a woman comes from defect in the active power. Thomas Aquinas
Nature Woman Sex Power Active Seed Perfect Individual Tends Masculine Likeness Male Regards While Production Defect Defective
The principal act of courage is to endure and withstand dangers doggedly rather than to attack them. Thomas Aquinas
Courage Dangers Rather Attack Principal Withstand Than Endure Them Act
All that is true, by whomsoever it has been said has its origin in the Spirit. Thomas Aquinas
Has-Been Spirit True Said Been Origin
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