St. Thomas Aquinas

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2024-12-15 12:44:16 UTC

Because nothing is good except insofar as it is a likeness and participation of the highest good, the highest good itself is in some way desired in every particular good (Commentary on Ethics 1).

2024-12-15 09:44:17 UTC

Prudence requires not only the understanding of ends but also moral virtues (On Truth q. 5, a. 1).

2024-12-15 06:44:15 UTC

Those who love their friends in proportion to their worth remain friends and their friendship is lasting (Commentary on Nicomachean Ethics 8).

2024-12-15 03:44:19 UTC

Change cannot take place where there is no potentiality to something else (ScG 3.20).

2024-12-15 00:44:14 UTC

The act of believing involves a firm assent to one part, and in this the believer is like one who knows or understands, yet his knowledge is not perfected by any manifest vision (ST 2-2.1.4).

2024-12-14 21:44:20 UTC

God is the life of the SOUL through charity and of the BODY through the soul.

2024-12-14 18:44:40 UTC

Judgment concerning individual cases must be left to the prudence of each person (Commentary on Ethics 2.2).

2024-12-14 15:44:16 UTC

He practices the truth in himself who is displeased at the evil he has done; and after leaving the darkness, keeps himself from sin, and repenting of the past, comes to the light, with the special intention of making his actions known (Commentary on John 3).

2024-12-14 12:44:19 UTC

“Hallowed be thy name.” But it is always hallowed. So why request it? It is explained in this way: let it be hallowed, that is, let what is holy in itself be manifested in us; not that it adds to him, but that the manifestation of his glory be added to us.

2024-12-14 09:44:23 UTC

Metaphysics Is the science of principles (Commentary on Meta. 11).

2024-12-14 06:44:17 UTC

Amazement is the beginning of philosophical consideration, whereas stupor is a hindrance to it (ST 1-2.41.4ad4).

2024-12-14 03:44:19 UTC

Both the blessed and the damned are under the eternal law.

2024-12-14 00:44:14 UTC

It belongs to a physician to cut off a decayed limb, when he has been entrusted with the care of the health of the whole body.

2024-12-13 21:44:15 UTC

Speech is that by which a person is led to the knowledge of the unknown, because, through speech, something becomes present to him that would otherwise be absent (On Truth 9.5).

2024-12-13 18:44:16 UTC

Sleep is the cessation of sensory operation.

2024-12-13 15:44:35 UTC

Certain physical actions accompany the worship of God, not only that we may render service to God with our whole being, but also that by these bodily actions we may arouse in ourselves and in others acts of the mind ordained to God (DT 3.2)

2024-12-13 12:44:25 UTC

The good of reason flourishes more in the temperate man than in the continent man, because in the former even the sensitive appetite is obedient to reason (ST 2-2.155.4).

2024-12-13 09:44:16 UTC

Any of Christ's suffering would have been enough to redeem the human race, even without his death, since Christ is a person of infinite worth (Quodlibetal Questions 2.2).

2024-12-13 06:44:14 UTC

By meekness a man is rightly ordered to his neighbor.

2024-12-13 03:44:13 UTC

The image of God, in its principal signification, namely the intellectual nature, is found both in man and in woman.

2024-12-13 00:44:20 UTC

If a husband were permitted to abandon his wife, the society of husband and wife would not be an association of equals, but instead a kind of slavery (ScG 3.123).

2024-12-12 21:44:15 UTC

Mercy does not destroy justice, but in a sense it is the fulness thereof (ST 1.21.3ad2).

2024-12-12 18:44:26 UTC

Riches are not the end of domestic economy but the instruments thereof (Commentary on Ethics 1).

2024-12-12 15:44:18 UTC

Thanksgiving is less thankful when compelled.

2024-12-12 12:44:29 UTC

God is Lord of death and life, for by His decree both the sinful and the righteous die.

2024-12-12 09:44:15 UTC

There is nothing that the divine intellect does not actually know, and nothing that the human intellect does not know potentially (On Truth q. 1, a. 2 ad 4).

2024-12-12 06:44:15 UTC

The truth of this faith was so strong among men that they named God from the act of understanding. For theos, which among the Greeks signifies God, comes from theaste, which means to consider or to see (ScG 1.44).

2024-12-12 03:44:48 UTC

Augustine says in his book, De vera religione, that we are beatified, not by beholding the angels, but by seeing the Truth in which we love the angels (Compendium of Theology, ch. 9)

2024-12-12 00:44:15 UTC

The human male and female are united, not only for generation, as with other animals, but also for the purpose of domestic life, in which each has his or her particular duty, and in which the man is the head of the woman (ST 1.92.2).

2024-12-11 21:44:38 UTC

Nature is moved by God's intellect (ST 2-2.18.4).

2024-12-11 18:44:20 UTC

The existence of God and other like truths about God, which can be known by natural reason, are not articles of faith, but are preambles to the articles; for faith presupposes natural knowledge, even as grace presupposes nature (ST 1.2.2ad1).

2024-12-11 15:44:24 UTC

For God it is the same thing to be, to live, to be wise, to be blessed, and to be whatever else seems to belong to perfection and goodness; the whole divine goodness is, as it were, His divine existing being (ScG 3.20).

2024-12-11 12:44:15 UTC

Every knowledge of truth is a kind of reflection and participation of the eternal law, which is the unchangeable truth (ST 1-2.93.2).

2024-12-11 09:44:15 UTC

If a wife has but one husband, but the husband has several wives, the friendship will not be equal on both sides. So, the friendship will not be free, but servile in some way (ScG 3.124).

2024-12-11 06:44:14 UTC

This prayer requires three things: first, the fervor of LOVE; secondly, the truth of FAITH; and thirdly, a correct INTENTION (Commentary on John 4).

2024-12-11 03:44:22 UTC

There are two principles of human acts, namely, the intellect/reason and the appetite, which are active principles (Commentary on Ethics 1).

2024-12-11 00:44:15 UTC

Drunkenness is among the class of sins committed against oneself (Commentary on 1 Corinthians).

2024-12-10 21:44:18 UTC

It is the privilege of friends to take joy in one another’s presence, in living together, and in conversation (ScG 1.91).

2024-12-10 18:44:20 UTC

Since the Father and the Son mutually love one another, it necessarily follows that this mutual Love, the Holy Spirit, proceeds from both (ST 1.37.1ad3).

2024-12-10 15:44:31 UTC

Men usually confuse rage with courage when they attribute to courage things that enraged or angry people do (Commentary on Ethics 3).

2024-12-10 12:44:13 UTC

A government becomes unjust by the fact that the ruler, paying no heed to the common good, seeks his own private good. Wherefore the further he departs from the common good the more unjust will his government be (On Kingship, ch. 4).

2024-12-10 09:44:15 UTC

Truth is not compatible with falsity, as neither is whiteness with blackness. But God is not only true, He is truth itself. So there can be no falsity in Him (ScG 1.61).

2024-12-10 06:45:11 UTC

The intellect first of all grasps being; second, it grasps that it understands being; third, it grasps that it desires being. So first is 'being', then 'truth', and then 'good' (ST 1.16.4ad2).

2024-12-10 03:44:17 UTC

Weak people who give in to a milder passion have a poor soul.

2024-12-10 00:44:19 UTC

Our Lord tempered his response about his kingship so that he neither clearly asserted that he was a king – since he was not a king in the sense in which Pilate understood it – nor denied it – since spiritually he was the King of Kings (Commentary on John 18).

2024-12-09 21:44:20 UTC

The object of hope is a good that is arduous and possible. But there are two ways in which something is possible for a man: (a) through his own power and (b) only through God’s power.

2024-12-09 18:44:18 UTC

Under good in general are included many particular goods, to none of which is the will determined.

2024-12-09 15:44:13 UTC

Pleasure is rest of the soul (ST 2-2.168.2).

2024-12-09 12:44:20 UTC

Although everything is good in that it has being, yet the essence of a creature is not being itself; and so it does not follow that a creature is good essentially (ST 1.6.3).

2024-12-09 09:44:14 UTC

Because Christ's holiness is the fount of all the Church's holiness, in necessity therefore, a consecrated altar suffices for performing this sacrament (ST 3.83.3ad2)

2024-12-09 06:44:19 UTC

The Old Law restrains the hand, but the New Law restrains the mind (ST 1-.2.91.5).

2024-12-09 03:44:15 UTC

Since we know God imperfectly, we also name him imperfectly, as through a stutter. Only He understands himself perfectly, so to speak, in generating the Word who is consubstantial with him (1 Sent. 22.1.1).

2024-12-09 00:44:15 UTC

We shall take part in the feasts of the angels, by contemplating not only the angels, but together with them also God Himself (ST 1-2.3.7ad1).

2024-12-08 18:44:18 UTC

Virtues that are infused relate to God in three ways. For certain ones have God as object and end, as the theological virtues do.

2024-12-08 15:44:16 UTC

Everything Eve desired was given to the Blessed Virgin.

2024-12-08 12:44:23 UTC

Saying the truth does not bully anyone into accepting it. Rather, anyone is free either to accept or not to accept, as he wills (ST 2-2.60.6ad1).

2024-12-08 09:44:16 UTC

The fruit of Christ’s passion is eternal life.

2024-12-08 06:44:14 UTC

Whatever is contrary to the order of reason is, properly speaking, contrary to the nature of man as man; while whatever is in accord with reason, is in accord with the nature of man as man (ST 1-2.71.2).

2024-12-08 03:44:14 UTC

Fraternal correction is likewise an act of charity, since through it we repel our brother's evil, namely, sin (ST 2-2.33.1).

2024-12-08 00:44:14 UTC

God intends only to communicate His perfection, which is His goodness; while every creature intends to acquire its own perfection, which is the likeness of the divine perfection and goodness (ST 1.44.4).

2024-12-07 21:44:28 UTC

God is more ready to show mercy than to punish.

2024-12-07 18:44:14 UTC

The cause of all our good is the Lord and divine love. For to love is properly speaking to will good to someone. Therefore, since the will of God is the cause of things, good comes to us because God loves us. And God’s love is the cause of the good of nature (Commentary on Jn 3).

2024-12-07 15:44:16 UTC

It is natural for a woman to have long hair. She has a natural disposition to it, and further a definite inclination is present in women to take care of their hair.

2024-12-07 12:44:16 UTC

All beings apart from God are not their own being, but are beings by participation.

2024-12-07 09:44:18 UTC

The love of bodily pleasures leads man to have a distaste for spiritual things, and not to hope for them as arduous goods. In this way, lust causes despair (ST 2-2.20.4).

2024-12-07 06:44:12 UTC

More follow sense than reason (ST I.49.3ad5).

2024-12-07 03:44:20 UTC

A proper effect of law is to make those to whom it is given good, either without qualification or in a certain respect.

2024-12-07 00:44:56 UTC

Prudence not merely counsels and judges what is to be done; it commands.

2024-12-06 21:44:20 UTC

Nature is moved by God's intellect (ST 2-2.18.4).

2024-12-06 18:44:15 UTC

If the one corrected loves the corrector, it is a sign of virtue; conversely, if he should hate him, then it is a sign of malice (Commentary on Galatians 4).

2024-12-06 15:44:18 UTC

It belongs to human nature that a man after coitus remain together with a woman, and not desert her right away to have such relations with another woman (ScG 3.122).

2024-12-06 12:44:22 UTC

It is plain that there are three principles of nature: matter, form, and privation (On Principles of Nature, ch. 3).

2024-12-06 09:44:42 UTC

The will is an immaterial power like the intellect.

2024-12-06 06:44:12 UTC

Whatever is contrary to the order of reason is, properly speaking, contrary to the nature of man as man. While whatever is in accord with reason is in accord with the nature of man as man (ST 1.71.2).

2024-12-06 03:44:25 UTC

All agents in their own way love their effects: thus, parents love their children, poets their poetry, and artists their works. All the more, then, does God not hate anything, since He is the cause of all (ScG 1.96).

2024-12-06 00:44:13 UTC

The divine intellect sees in the whole of its eternity, as being present to it, whatever takes place through the whole course of time (ScG 1.66).

2024-12-05 21:44:30 UTC

To believe in Christ is good in itself, and necessary for salvation: but the will does not tend thereto, except inasmuch as it is proposed by reason (ST 1-2.19.5).

2024-12-05 18:44:23 UTC

Any of Christ's suffering would have been enough to redeem the human race, even without his death, since Christ is a person of infinite worth (Quodlibetal Questions 2.2).

2024-12-05 15:44:50 UTC

Carnal wars should be considered as having for their end the Divine spiritual good to which clerics are deputed, so it is the duty of clerics to dispose and counsel other men to engage in just wars (ST 2-2.40.2ad3).

2024-12-05 12:44:13 UTC

Politics considers the ultimate and complete good regarding human affairs (Commentary on Politics, Prologue).

2024-12-05 09:44:21 UTC

By sinning man departs from the order of reason, and consequently falls away from the dignity of his manhood, in so far as he is naturally free and exists for himself (ST 2-2.64.2ad3).

2024-12-05 06:44:11 UTC

Riches are not the end of domestic economy but the instruments thereof (Commentary on Ethics 1).

2024-12-05 03:44:17 UTC

The person is that which is most perfect in all of nature, namely, that which subsists in a rational nature (ST 1.29.3).

2024-12-05 00:44:28 UTC

The will is an immaterial power like the intellect.

2024-12-04 21:44:14 UTC

Created things change in their participation of the first Truth, yet the first Truth, according to which they are said to be true, does not change in any way (On Truth 1.6).

2024-12-04 18:44:24 UTC

The political ruler does not dictate to geometry what conclusions it should draw about a triangle, for this is not subject to the human will nor can it be ordered to human living but it depends on the very nature of things (Commentary on Ethics 1).

2024-12-04 15:44:23 UTC

The more we love the good things that we have, the more we suffer at the thought of losing them. Thus the Philosopher says that the chameleon, which changes its color under our glance, is not to be considered happy. Rather, beatitude must be unchanging (Sermon on All the Saints).

2024-12-04 12:44:13 UTC

Whatever is a means of preserving human life, and of warding off its obstacles, belongs to the natural law (ST 1-2.94.2).

2024-12-04 09:44:16 UTC

A proper effect of law is to make those to whom it is given good, either without qualification or in a certain respect.

2024-12-04 06:44:13 UTC

When man turned his back on God, he fell under the influence of his sensual impulses: in fact this happens to each one individually, the more he deviates from the path of reason, so that, after a fashion, he is likened to the beasts that are led by the impulse of sensuality.

2024-12-04 03:44:18 UTC

There are two principles of human acts, namely, the intellect/reason and the appetite, which are active principles (Commentary on Ethics 1).

2024-12-04 00:44:14 UTC

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever (Hebrews 13:8).

2024-12-03 21:44:17 UTC

Truth does not depend on what one thinks but on the existence of things (On Truth 1.2ad3).

2024-12-03 18:44:14 UTC

The Divine intellect is the measure of things, since each thing has as much truth in it, as it represents the Divine intellect (ST 1-2.93.1ad3).

2024-12-03 15:44:31 UTC

All the commandments are, in a way, directed to this: that we do good to our neighbor, and not harm him; and this is done best through charity. Charity is the end because all the commandments are directed to it and by it alone are given strength (Commentary on John 15).

2024-12-03 12:44:13 UTC

After sin, the sacrament of penance is necessary for salvation, even as bodily medicine after man has contracted a dangerous disease (ST 3.84.5).

2024-12-03 09:44:14 UTC

Generosity does not mean giving away wealth such that not enough remains for the individual himself to live on (ST 2-2.117.1ad2).

2024-12-03 06:44:15 UTC

We recall God's benefits to us as being of three kinds. Sometimes, as they are found in our head, the Lord Jesus Christ. Thus we celebrate the feast of his birth, and of his resurrection, and so on.

2024-12-03 03:44:15 UTC

The New Law fulfills the Old by justifying men through the power of Christ's Passion.

2024-12-03 00:44:16 UTC

The moral virtues are directed to the good, inasmuch as they safeguard the good of reason against the impulse of the passions (ST 2-2.136.1).