Thomas Aquinas Quotes About Grace

Quotes about: Grace

• 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 a man is sick on account of sin. For that reason he needs medicine so that he may be restored to health; and this grace is bestowed in the Sacrament of Penance.

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  Spiritual, Men, Medicine

• Believing is an act of the intellect assenting to the divine truth by command of the will moved by God through grace.

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  Believe, Catholic, Grace

• Without sanctifying grace it is not possible to refrain long from mortal sin.

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  Long, Grace, Sin

• That the saints may enjoy their beatitude and the grace of God more abundantly they are permitted to see the punishment of the damned in hell.

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  Powerful, Thoughtful, Love Is

• Grace does not destroy nature, it perfects it.

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  Grace, Doe

• The splendor of a soul in grace is so seductive that it surpasses the beauty of all created things.

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  Seductive, Grace, Soul

• Likewise grace and glory are referred to the same genus, since grace is nothing other than a certain first beginning of glory in us.

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  Grace, Glory, Certain

  "Questions on Love and Charity: Summa Theologiae, Secunda Secundae, Questions 23–46".

• 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 of grace unless he is born again spiritually. This regeneration is effected by Baptism: "Unless a man is born again of water and the Holy Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God" (Jn 3:5)

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  Spiritual, Men, Water

• Man is closer to God according to his existence in grace than he is according to his existence in nature.

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  Men, Grace, Existence

• Grace renders us like God and a partaker of the divine nature.

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  Grace, Divine, Divine Nature

• Down in adoration falling, Lo! the sacred Host we hail; Lo! o'er ancient forms departing, Newer rites of grace prevail; Faith for all defects supplying, Where the feeble senses fail.

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  Fall, Grace, Sacred

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