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. Thomas Aquinas convictdeathexcommunicate Change image and share on social
To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin. Thomas Aquinas actualbearimperfection Change image and share on social
By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments. Thomas Aquinas endowmentequalliberty Change image and share on social
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. Thomas Aquinas actconscienceevil Change image and share on social
Reason in man is rather like God in the world. Thomas Aquinas godmanreason Change image and share on social
Hold firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this, and you dissolve the unity of the Church. Thomas Aquinas ancientchurchdeny Change image and share on social
As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active power of the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex; while the production of a woman comes from defect in the active power. Thomas Aquinas activedefectdefective share on social
Human salvation demands the divine disclosure of truths surpassing reason. Thomas Aquinas demanddisclosuredivine Change image and share on social
It is clear that he does not pray, who, far from uplifting himself to God, requires that God shall lower Himself to him, and who resorts to prayer not to stir the man in us to will what God wills, but only to persuade God to will what the man in us wills. Thomas Aquinas cleargodlow share on social
To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible. Thomas Aquinas explanationfaith Change image and share on social
