Italian - Theologian | 1225 - 1274
Human salvation demands the divine disclosure of truths surpassing reason.
Thomas Aquinas
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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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Clearly the person who accepts the Church as an infallible guide will believe whatever the Church teaches.
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Love is a binding force, by which another is joined to me and cherished by myself.
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To convert somebody go and take them by the hand and guide them.
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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.
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Distinctions drawn by the mind are not necessarily equivalent to distinctions in reality.
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Because we cannot know what God is, but only what He is not, we cannot consider how He is but only how He is not.
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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.
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All the efforts of the human mind cannot exhaust the essence of a single fly.
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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.
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The theologian considers sin mainly as an offence against God; the moral philosopher as contrary to reasonableness.
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