Quotes by Thomas Aquinas

Thomas Aquinas

…[sacred] doctrine is especially based upon arguments from authority, inasmuch as its principles are obtained by revelation: thus we ought to believe on the authority of those to whom the revelation has been made. Nor does this take away from the dignity of this doctrine, for although the argument from authority based on human reason is the weakest, yet the argument from authority based on divine revelation is the strongest.

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“The Jews should not be allowed to keep what they have obtained from others by usury; it were best that they were compelled to worked so that they could earn their living instead of doing nothing but becoming avaricious.”

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Doing Nothing

Usury

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

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A man has free choice to the extent that he is rational.

Love Is

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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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A thing is lovable according as it is good. But God is infinite good. Therefore He is infinitely lovable.

Infinite

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Affirmative precepts are distinguished from negative whenever one is not comprised in the other; thus, that of honoring parents does not comprise that of not killing, and vice versa.

Negative

Parent

Vices

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All men are equal in nature, and also in original sin. It is in the merits and demerits of their actions that they differ.

Action

Men

Merit

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All the efforts of the human mind cannot exhaust the essence of a single fly.

Love Is

Philosophical

Thoughtful

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An act of love always tends towards two things; to the good that one wills, and to the person for whom one wills it.

Acts Of Love

Persons

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