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1220–1274 Italy
Saint Thomas Aquinas (c. 1225 – 7 March 1274) was an Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, Catholic priest, and Doctor of the Church. An immensely influential philosopher, theologian, and jurist in the tradition of scholasticism, he is also known within the latter as the Doctor Angelicus, the Doctor Communis, and the Doctor Universalis.
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Now, as the Word of God is the Son of God, so the love of God is the Holy Spirit.
On the Apostles' Creed (1273)
Greed is a sin against God, just as all mortal sins, in as much as man condemns things eternal for the sake of temporal things
Summa Theologica: Part II (1274)
There is no entering into salvation outside the Church, just as in the time of the deluge there was none outside the ark, which denotes the Church.
Anything done against faith or conscience is sinful.
Gods are called many by the error of some who worshipped many deities, thinking as they did the planets and other stars were gods, and also the separate parts of the world.
Beauty adds to goodness a relation to the cognitive faculty: so that "good" means that which simply pleases the appetite; while the "beautiful" is something pleasant to apprehend.
Three things are necessary for man to be saved: knowledge of what is to be believed, knowledge of what is to be desired, and knowledge of what is to be done.
On the Ten Commandments (1273)
Man reaches the highest point of his knowledge about God when he knows that he knows him not, inasmuch as he knows that that which is God transcends whatsoever he conceives of him.
De potentia (1265)
So, to detract from the perfection of creatures is to detract from the perfection of divine power.
Summa contra Gentiles (1259)
All that is true, from anyone it is said, always comes from the Holy Spirit.
Down in adoration falling,
The end of the first agent and mover must be the ultimate end of all. Thus, the end of the commander of an army is the end of all who serve as soldiers under him.
Raynalde, non possum, quia omnia quae scripsi videntur mihi palae. Replying to Reginald of Piperno: Videntur mihi palae respectu eorum quae vidi et revelata sunt mihi.
O saving Victim, opening wide
We can open our hearts to God, but only with Divine help.
De veritate (1256)
To become like God is the ultimate end of all.
Summa contra Gentiles (1259)
The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A being that is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing.
When government is unjustly exercised by one man who seeks personal profit from his position instead of the good of the community subject to him, such a ruler is called a tyrant.
Wherefore if forgers of money and other evil-doers are forthwith condemned to death by the secular authority, much more reason is there for heretics, as soon as they are convicted of heresy, to be not only excommunicated but even put to death.
In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority of the sovereign…. Secondly, a just cause…. Thirdly … a rightful intention.
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