Tag: Thomas Aquinas
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Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand.
Thomas Aquinas
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Hold firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this, and you dissolve the unity of the Church.
Thomas Aquinas
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A man has free choice to the extent that he is rational.
Thomas Aquinas
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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
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Better to illuminate than merely to shine, to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate.
Thomas Aquinas
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It is possible to demonstrate God’s existence, although not a priori, yet a posteriori from some work of His more surely known to us.
Thomas Aquinas
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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