Thomas Aquinas Short Quotes

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Reason in man is rather like God in the world.

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Anything done against faith or conscience is sinful.

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We can open our hearts to God, but only with Divine help.

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God's precepts are light to the loving, heavy to the fearful.

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A man does not always choose what his guardian angel intends.

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Venial sin becomes mortal sin when one approves it as an end...

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Charity is the form, mover, mother and root of all the virtues.

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Concerning perfect blessedness which consists in a vision of God.

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Whatever the mind distinguishes in thought is distinct in reality.

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To scorn the dictate of reason is to scorn the commandment of God.

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By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments.

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Good can exist without evil, whereas evil cannot exist without good.

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We should love others truly, for their own sakes rather than our own.

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It must be said that charity can, in no way, exist along with mortal sin.

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Miracles are signs not to them that believe, but to them that believe not.

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Human salvation demands the divine disclosure of truths surpassing reason.

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Baptism is the door of the spiritual life and the gateway to the sacraments.

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Charity, by which God and neighbor are loved, is the most perfect friendship.

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Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.

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Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice.

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Not everyone who is enlightened by an angel knows that he is enlightened by him.

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Every truth without exception- and whoever may utter it- is from the Holy Spirit.

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Love is a binding force, by which another is joined to me and cherished by myself.

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It is not possible to be ignorant of the end of things if we know their beginning.

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All that I have written seems like straw compared to what has now been revealed to me.

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The greatness of the human being consists in this: that it is capable of the universe.

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Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them.

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It would be superfluous to receive by faith, things that can be known by natural reason

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It would seem that zeal is not an effect of love. For zeal is a beginning of contention.

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Eternity is called whole, not because it has parts, but because it is lacking in nothing.

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