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• 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

  Powerful, Men, Aggravation

  "Paul Ryan's faith in Ayn Rand is a political problem for Romney" by Giles Fraser, www.theguardian.com. August 13, 2012.

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• 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

  Hatred, Hated, Contrary

  Saint Thomas (Aquinas) (1845). “Summa Theologica, (Complete)”, p.3052, Library of Alexandria

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• For creation is not a change, but that dependence of the created existence on the principle from which it is instituted, and thus is of the genus of relation; whence nothing prohibits it
  being in the created as in the subject. Creation is thus said to be a kind of change, according to the way of understanding, insofar as our intellect accepts one and the same thing as not
  existing before and afterwards existing.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Understanding, Way, Principles

  "Summa Contra Gentiles". Book by Thomas Aquinas, II, 18.2,

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• The only-begotten Son of God, wanting to make us sharers in His divinity, assumed our nature, so that He, made man, might make men gods.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Son, Men, Catholic

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

  Thomas Aquinas

  Seductive, Grace, Soul

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• 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

  People, Causes

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

  Thomas Aquinas

  Grace, Divine, Divine Nature

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• If someone knows from experience that daily Communion increases fervor without lessening reverence, then let him go every day. But if someone finds that reverence is lessened and devotion not much increased, then let him sometimes abstain, so as to draw near afterwards with better dispositions.

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  Christian, Holy Eucharist, Saint

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• The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Catholic, Matter, Dogma

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• Charity is not a potency of the soul, because if it were it would be natural. Nor is it a passion, because it is not in a sensitive potency in which are all passions. Nor is it a habit, because a habit is removed with difficulty; charity, however, is easily lost through one act of mortal sin. Therefore charity is not something created in the soul.

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  Passion, Soul, Would Be

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• Pain itself can be pleasurable accidentally in so far as it is accompanied by wonder, as in stage-plays; or in so far as it recalls a beloved object to one's memory, and makes one feel one's love for the thing, whose absence gives us pain. Consequently, since love is pleasant, both pain and whatever else results from love, in so far as they remind us of our love, are pleasant.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Pain, Memories, Love Is

  Saint Thomas (Aquinas) (1845). “Summa Theologica, (Complete)”, p.3172, Library of Alexandria

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• 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".

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• It seems that God does not exist; because if one of two contraries be infinite, the other would be altogether destroyed. But the word "God" means that He is infinite goodness. If, therefore, God existed, there would be no evil discoverable; but there is evil in the world. Therefore God does not exist.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Mean, Two, Evil

  Saint Thomas (Aquinas) (1845). “Summa Theologica, (Complete)”, p.42, Library of Alexandria

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• Reason in man is rather like God in the world.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Philosophical, Knowledge, Men

  Saint Thomas Aquinas (1951). “Philosophical Texts”, London : Oxford University Press

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• For it is necessary in every practical science to proceed in a composite (i.e. deductive) manner. On the contrary in speculative science, it is necessary to proceed in an analytical manner by breaking down the complex into elementary principles.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Science, Scientific Method, Principles

  Saint Thomas Aquinas (1993). “Commentary on Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics”, St. Augustine's Press

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• Practical sciences proceed by building up; theoretical science by resolving into components.

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  Science, Building Up, Statistics

  Saint Thomas (Aquinas) (1960). “St. Thomas Aquinas: Philosophical Texts”

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• Baptism is the Sacrament of Faith. Now, dead faith does not suffice for salvation .. .Therefore, the Sacrament of Baptism cannot give salvation to a man whose will ... expels the form of faith.

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  Men, Giving, Baptism

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• A person is disposed to an act of choice by an angel ... in two ways. Sometimes, a man's understanding is enlightened by an angel to know what is good, but it is not instructed as to the reason why ... But sometimes he is instructed by angelic illumination, both that this act is good and as to the reason why it is good.

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  Angel, Men, Illumination

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• Charity is love; not all love is charity.

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  Love Is, Charity

  Saint Thomas (Aquinas) (1955). “Theological texts”

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• This Blood that but one drop of has the power to win all the world forgiveness of its world of sin.

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  Forgiveness, Winning, Blood

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• They also have at that critical point of death the opportunity to be converted to God through repentance. And if they are so obstinate that even at the point of death their heart does not draw back from malice, it is possible to make a quite probable judgment that they would never come away from evil.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Heart, Opportunity, Evil

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• Do not wish to jump immediately from the streams to the sea, because one has to go through easier things to the more difficult.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Sea, Wish, Christianity

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• Good and evil are essential differences of the act of the will. For good and evil pertain essentially to the will; just as truth and falsehood pertain to the reason, the act of which is distinguished essentially by the difference of truth and falsehood (according as we say that an opinion is true or false.) Consequently, good and evil volition are acts differing in species.

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  Differences, Evil, True Or False

  Thomas Aquinas, Anton C. Pegis (1997). “Basic Writings of St. Thomas Aquinas, Volume 2”, p.335, Hackett Publishing

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• Reasoning is compared to understanding as movement is to rest, or acquisition to possession.... Since movement always proceeds from something immovable, and ends in something at rest, hence it is that human reasoning, in the order of inquiry and discovery, proceeds from certain things absolutely understood--namely, the first principles; and, again, in the order of judgment, returns by analysis to first principles, in the light of which it examines what it has found. Now it is clear that rest and movement are not to be referred to different powers, but to one and the same.

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  Light, Discovery, Order

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• The world of pure spirits stretches between the divine nature and the world of human beings; because divine wisdom has ordained that the higher should look after the lower, angels execute the divine plan for human salvation: they are our guardians, who free us when hindered and help to bring us home.

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  Angel, Home, Divine Wisdom

  Saint Thomas (Aquinas) (1955). “Theological texts”

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