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10 inspirational thomas aquinas quotes on success

  • To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.
  • Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire, and to know what he ought to do.
  • Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • How can we live in harmony? First, we need to know we are all madly in love with the same God.
  • 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.
  • The knowledge of God is the cause of things. For the knowledge of God is to all creatures what the knowledge of the artificer is to things made by his art.
  • Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.
  • 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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