Thomas Aquinas
Thomas Aquinas
Thomas Aquinas, O.P., was an Italian Dominican friar, Catholic priest, and Doctor of the Church. He was an immensely influential philosopher, theologian, and jurist in the tradition of scholasticism, within which he is also known as the Doctor Angelicus and the Doctor Communis. The name Aquinas identifies his ancestral origins in the county of Aquino in present-day Lazio, where his family held land until 1137...
NationalityItalian
ProfessionTheologian
CountryItaly
teaching men religion-of-islam
He (Mohammed) seduced the people by promises of carnal pleasure to which the concupiscence of the flesh urges us. His teaching also contained precepts that were in conformity with his promises, and he gave free rein to carnal pleasure. In all this, as is not unexpected; he was obeyed by carnal men. As for proofs of the truth of his doctrine, he brought forward only such as could be grasped by the natural ability of anyone with a very modest wisdom. Indeed, the truths that he taught he mingled with many fables and with doctrines of the greatest falsity.
unjust injustice wells
If you can live amid injustice without anger, you are immoral as well as unjust.
friendship philosophical real-friends
Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.
desire wonder
Wonder is the desire of knowledge.
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The Church has ever proved indestructible. Her persecutors have failed to destroy her; in fact, it was during times of persecution that the Church grew more and more; while the persecutors themselves, and those whom the Church would destroy, are the very ones who came to nothing. . . .Again, errors have assailed her; but in fact, the greater the number of errors that have arisen, the more has the truth been made manifest. . . . Nor has the Church failed before the assaults of demons: for she is like a tower of refuge to all who fight against the Devil.
catholic matter dogma
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.
kindness men errors
The greatest kindness one can render to any man consists in leading him from error to truth.
eternity lacking whole
Eternity is called whole, not because it has parts, but because it is lacking in nothing.
friendship relationship true-friend
There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.
perseverance heart waiting
Grant me, O Lord my God, a mind to know you, a heart to seek you, wisdom to find you, conduct pleasing to you, faithful perseverance in waiting for you, and a hope of finally embracing you. Amen.
support use needs
It is not theft, properly speaking, to take secretly and use another's property in a case of extreme need: because that which he takes for the support of his life becomes his own property by reason of that need
catholic danger paved-roads
There being an imminent danger for the faith, prelates must be questioned, even publicly, by their subjects.
equality men liberty
By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments.
forgiveness winning blood
This Blood that but one drop of has the power to win all the world forgiveness of its world of sin.