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The things that we love tell us what we are.

The things that we love tell us what we are.

Thomas Aquinas
Love, Christian, Greatness

To restore man, who had been laid low by sin, to the heights of divine glory, the Word of the eternal Father, though containing all things within His immensity, willed to become small. This He did not by putting aside His greatness but by taking to Himself our littleness.

Thomas Aquinas
Father, Greatness, Men
St Thomas Aquinas (2002). “Aquinas’s Shorter Summa”, p.3, Sophia Institute Press

The greatness of the human being consists in this: that it is capable of the universe.

Thomas Aquinas
Greatness, Humans, Human Beings
"Questiones disputatae: De veritate (Disputed Questions: On Truth)". Book by Thomas Aquinas (Question 1, Article 2, Ad. 4), 1256-1259.

The magnitude of the punishment matches the magnitude of the sin. Now a sin that is against God is infinite; the higher the person against whom it is committed, the graver the sin-it is more criminal to strike a head of state than a private citizen-and God is of infinite greatness. Therefore an infinite punishment is deserved for a sin committed against Him.

Thomas Aquinas
Greatness, Punishment, Criminals
Thomas Aquinas, T. C. O'Brien (2006). “Summa Theologiae: Volume 27, Effects of Sin, Stain and Guilt: 1a2ae. 86-89”, p.25, Cambridge University Press

It is due to neither impotence nor ignorance on God’s part that evils occur in the world, but it is owing to the order of his wisdom and to the greatness of his goodness, whence come the many and divers grades of goodness in things, many of which would be lacking were he to allow no evil to exist. Thus there would be no good of patience without the evil of persecution, nor the good of the preservation of its life in a lion, without the evil of the destruction of the animals on which it lives.

Thomas Aquinas
Ignorance, Greatness, Animal
"'De Potentia' ('On Power')". Book by Thomas Aquinas, q. 3, art. 6, ad 4, dhspriory.org.

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