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 more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet.


Summa Theologica: Second part of the Second part, QQ. 1-189 and Third part, QQ. 1-90 (ed. 1947)

Thomas Aquinas Quotes

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 more...

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 more...

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 more...

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 more...