Best quotes from Thomas Aquinas
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"An action is good only if each element in it is good; It is bad if any one of those elements is bad."
- Gratia non tollit naturam sed perficit.
"Grace does not take away nature but perfects it."
- Interior autem influxus gratiae non est ab aliquo nisi a solo Christo, cuius humanitas ex hoc quod est divinitati coniuncta habet virtutem iustificandi.
"The outpouring of grace in us all, belongs only to Christ and his sanctifying causality results in the intimate union in Christ and between divinity and humanity."
- Melior est in vita amor Dei quam Dei cognitio.
"In this live it is better to love God, than to know him."
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"Those who have grace, the closer they get to the end, the more they need to grow spiritually."
- Bonum commune praeminet bono singulari unius personae.
"The common good is more important than the particular good."
- Quilibet homo secundum quod suum est, debet se cuilibet proximo subjicere quantum ad id quod est Dei in ipso.
"Everyone should recognize as being less of himself, as compared to what others have from God."
- Lex mala, lex nulla.
"Bad law, no law."