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Last Notes npub15m39tzndgqytverq0fuwaag3l97zj7mszp4a0xv5g0zeslyzl6ssaarufz St. Thomas Aquinas The prayers even of sinners are sometimes granted by God (ST 2-2.178.2ad1). npub15m39tzndgqytverq0fuwaag3l97zj7mszp4a0xv5g0zeslyzl6ssaarufz St. Thomas Aquinas Everything tending to its own perfection tends toward the divine likeness (ScG 3.21). npub15m39tzndgqytverq0fuwaag3l97zj7mszp4a0xv5g0zeslyzl6ssaarufz St. Thomas Aquinas He who enters religion does not make profession to be perfect, but to endeavor to attain perfection. npub15m39tzndgqytverq0fuwaag3l97zj7mszp4a0xv5g0zeslyzl6ssaarufz St. Thomas Aquinas The will is an immaterial power like the intellect. npub15m39tzndgqytverq0fuwaag3l97zj7mszp4a0xv5g0zeslyzl6ssaarufz St. Thomas Aquinas The New Law fulfills the Old by justifying men through the power of Christ's Passion. npub15m39tzndgqytverq0fuwaag3l97zj7mszp4a0xv5g0zeslyzl6ssaarufz St. Thomas Aquinas Spiritual beauty consists in man's conduct or actions being well proportioned to the spiritual clarity of reason (ST 2-2.145.2). npub15m39tzndgqytverq0fuwaag3l97zj7mszp4a0xv5g0zeslyzl6ssaarufz St. Thomas Aquinas Among human animals, cold foods that moderate the temperament are delightful to the choleric, but warm foods are agreeable to the phlegmatic (Commentary on Nicomachean Ethics 7). npub15m39tzndgqytverq0fuwaag3l97zj7mszp4a0xv5g0zeslyzl6ssaarufz St. Thomas Aquinas God alone has the whole plenitude of His Being in a certain unity: whereas every other thing has its proper fulness of being in a certain multiplicity (ST 1-2.18.1). npub15m39tzndgqytverq0fuwaag3l97zj7mszp4a0xv5g0zeslyzl6ssaarufz St. Thomas Aquinas If a teacher determines a question with bare authorities, it will indeed assure the listener that it is the case, but he will acquire no science or understanding, but will be sent away empty (QQ 4.9.3). npub15m39tzndgqytverq0fuwaag3l97zj7mszp4a0xv5g0zeslyzl6ssaarufz St. Thomas Aquinas To man as man belong rational and animal, and whatever else falls in his definition. But white or black, or anything of this sort, which is not of the content of humanity, does not belong to man as man (On being and essence). npub15m39tzndgqytverq0fuwaag3l97zj7mszp4a0xv5g0zeslyzl6ssaarufz St. Thomas Aquinas Others have God not for that object in which their act passes, but for a proximate end, as is clear concerning the act of worship (In Sent 4.4.1.1). npub15m39tzndgqytverq0fuwaag3l97zj7mszp4a0xv5g0zeslyzl6ssaarufz St. Thomas Aquinas The purpose the Word of God had in assuming human nature was the salvation and reparation of human nature. npub15m39tzndgqytverq0fuwaag3l97zj7mszp4a0xv5g0zeslyzl6ssaarufz St. Thomas Aquinas All things are true by means of one truth, the truth of the divine intellect (On Truth 1.4). npub15m39tzndgqytverq0fuwaag3l97zj7mszp4a0xv5g0zeslyzl6ssaarufz St. Thomas Aquinas In the creature, the act of creation is nothing other than a certain relation to the creator as the principle of its existence (ST. 1.45.3). npub15m39tzndgqytverq0fuwaag3l97zj7mszp4a0xv5g0zeslyzl6ssaarufz St. Thomas Aquinas Though man is not always bound to will what God wills, yet he is always bound to will what God wills him to will. npub15m39tzndgqytverq0fuwaag3l97zj7mszp4a0xv5g0zeslyzl6ssaarufz St. Thomas Aquinas Hope is a preparation of man for the true love of God (ScG 3.153). npub15m39tzndgqytverq0fuwaag3l97zj7mszp4a0xv5g0zeslyzl6ssaarufz St. Thomas Aquinas The very shape of the human body represents the image of God in the soul by way of a trace (ST 1.93.6ad3). npub15m39tzndgqytverq0fuwaag3l97zj7mszp4a0xv5g0zeslyzl6ssaarufz St. Thomas Aquinas When a being has in another its entire reason for being, it is impossible that it not love, by nature, this other more than itself (ST 1.60.5ad1). npub15m39tzndgqytverq0fuwaag3l97zj7mszp4a0xv5g0zeslyzl6ssaarufz St. Thomas Aquinas Nothing can become certain for the intellect except through God's influence (Compendium 1.129). npub15m39tzndgqytverq0fuwaag3l97zj7mszp4a0xv5g0zeslyzl6ssaarufz St. Thomas Aquinas We see anger, sexual desires, and certain passions obviously change the body externally, for example, in causing body heat. Sometimes such passions generate so much heat that they lead people to insanity (Commentary on Nicomachean Ethics 7)