Best quotes by Thomas Aquinas on God
Checkout quotes by Thomas Aquinas on God
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‟ Because we cannot know what God is, but only what He is not, we cannot consider how He is but only how He is not.
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‟ How can we live in harmony? First we need to know we are all madly in love with the same God.
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‟ Reason in man is rather like God in the world.
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‟ It is necessary to posit something which is necessary of itself, and has no cause of its necessity outside of itself but is the cause of necessity in other things. And all people call this thing God.
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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.
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‟ That the saints may enjoy their beatitude and the grace of God more abundantly they are permitted to see the punishment of the damned in hell.
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‟ 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.
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‟ It is possible to demonstrate God's existence, although not a priori, yet a posteriori from some work of His more surely known to us.
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