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Saint Thomas Aquinas OP (/əˈkwaɪnəs/; Italian: Tommaso d'Aquino, lit. 'Thomas of Aquino'; 1225 – 7 March 1274) 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.

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If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.

Highest, Inspirational, Powerful, Preserve, Ship, Softball

Venial sin becomes mortal sin when one approves it as an end. . .

Approves, Becomes, Ends, Mortal Sin, Sin

If you can live amid injustice without anger, you are immoral as well as unjust.

Amid, Immoral, Injustice, Live, Unjust, Wells

If forgers and malefactors are put to death by the secular power, there is much more reason for excommunicating and even putting to death one convicted of heresy.

Excommunicating, Powerful, Putting, Reason, Scary, Secular

Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.

Binds, Character, Mind, Passion, Powerful, Temperance

An angel can illumine the thought and mind of man by strengthening the power of vision and by bringing within his reach some truth which the angel himself contemplates.

Character, Angel, Men, Vision, Strengthening

To live well is to work well, to show a good activity.

Good, Live Well, Powerful, Show, Wells, Work

Without sanctifying grace it is not possible to refrain long from mortal sin.

Grace, Long, Mortal, Possible, Sin

It is a sin directly against one's neighbour, since one man cannot over-abound in external riches, without another man lacking them.

Against, External, Men, Neighbour, Riches, Sin

Far graver is it to corrupt the faith that is the life of the soul than to counterfeit the money that sustains temporal life.

Counterfeit, Faith, Soul, Sustains, Temporal

Not everything that is more difficult is more meritorious.

Difficult, Difficulty, Everything, Meritorious, Powerful

Without the suitable conditions life could not exist. But both life and its conditions set forth the operations of inscrutable Power. We know not its origin; we know not its end. And the presumption, if not the degradation, rests with those who place upon the throne of the universe a magnified image of themselves, and make its doings a mere colossal imitation of their own. Wonder was the motive that led people to philosophy. . . wonder is a kind of desire in knowledge. It is the cause of delight because it carries with it the hope of discovery.

Discovery, Image, Knowledge, Led, People, Philosophy

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.

Arisen, Errors, Failed, Fighting, Grew, Numbers

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

Friends, Friendship, Philosophical, Real Friends, Tedious

Every judgement of conscience, be it right or wrong, be it about things evil in themselves or morally indifferent, is obligatory, in such wise that he who acts against his conscience always sins.

Indifferent, Powerful, Things, Wisdom, Wise, Wrong

A song is the exultation of the mind dwelling on eternal things, bursting forth in the voice.

Bursting, Dwelling, Mind, Song, Voice

The human race was in need of salvation because of the perversity of sin. For when people who are ill are cured from their illness, they are called "saved. " Therefore, the Lord says: "Your faith has saved you.

Human, Needs, People, Race, Salvation, Sin

By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments.

Endowments, Liberty, Nature, Powerful, Thoughtful

Baptism is the Sacrament of Faith. Now, dead faith does not suffice for salvation. . . Therefore, the Sacrament of Baptism cannot give salvation to a man whose will. . . expels the form of faith.

Baptism, Dead, Giving, Man, Men, Suffice

For just as the first general precepts of the law of nature are self-evident to one in possession of natural reason, and have no need of promulgation, so also that of believing in God is primary and self-evident to one who has faith: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is.

Believe, Cometh, Faith, God, Nature, Self

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