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St. Thomas Aquinas
Angelic Doctor of the Church
Born: 1225, Roccasecca, Italy
Died: March 7, 1274, Fossanova Abbey, Italy
"Christ was either liar, lunatic, or Lord!"
~ Thomas Aquinas
"If, then, you are looking for the way by which you should go, take Christ, because He Himself is the way."
~ Thomas Aquinas
"For those with faith, no evidence is necessary; for those without it, no evidence will suffice."
~ Thomas Aquinas
"When the devil is called the god of this world, it is not because he made it, but because we serve him with our worldliness."
~ Thomas Aquinas
"Humility is the mark of a genuine disciple."
~ Thomas Aquinas
"The Eucharist is the Sacrament of Love; It signifies Love, It produces love. The Eucharist is the consummation of the whole spiritual life."
~ Thomas Aquinas
"For those with faith, no evidence is necessary; for those without it, no evidence will suffice."
~ Thomas Aquinas
"Unbelief is the greatest of sins."
~ Thomas Aquinas
"The existence of a prime mover- nothing can move itself; there must be a first mover. The first mover is called God."
~ Thomas Aquinas
"Humility is the mark of a genuine disciple."
~ Thomas Aquinas
"It is clear that he does not pray, who, far from uplifting himself to God, requires that God shall lower Himself to him, and who resorts to prayer not to stir the man in us to will what God wills, but only to persuade God to will what the man in us wills."
~ Thomas Aquinas
"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."
~ Thomas Aquinas
"Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do." [1]
~ Thomas Aquinas
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[1] "The Soul of a Nation: Culture, Morality, Law, Education, Faith". Book by Bernard J. Coughlin, p. 27, 2012.
The things that we love tell us what we are.
~ Thomas Aquinas
"The greatest kindness one can render to any man consists in leading him from error to truth."
~ Thomas Aquinas
"The soul is perfected by knowledge and virtue."
~ Thomas Aquinas
"Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will."
~ Thomas Aquinas
"Mercy without justice is the mother of dissolution; justice without mercy is cruelty."
~ Thomas Aquinas