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Because of the diverse conditions of humans, it happens that some acts are virtuous to some people, as appropriate and suitable to them, while the same acts are immoral for others, as inappropriate to them. ↗

— Thomas Aquinas

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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. ↗

— Thomas Aquinas

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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. ↗

— Thomas Aquinas

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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. ↗

— Thomas Aquinas

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The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing. ↗

— Thomas Aquinas

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There is but one Church in which men find salvation, just as outside the ark of Noah it was not possible for anyone to be saved. ↗

— Thomas Aquinas

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Three conditions are necessary for Penance: contrition, which is sorrow for sin, together with a purpose of amendment; confession of sins without any omission; and satisfaction by means of good works. ↗

— Thomas Aquinas

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Faith is not simply a patience that passively suffers until the storm is past. Rather, it is a spirit that bears things - with resignations, yes, but above all, with blazing, serene hope. ↗

— Corazon Aquino

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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. ↗

— Thomas Aquinas

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The principal act of courage is to endure and withstand dangers doggedly rather than to attack them. ↗

— Thomas Aquinas

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