Thomas Aquinas

"Yet if heretics be altogether uprooted by death, this is not contrary to Our Lord's command , which is to be understood as referring to the case when the cockle cannot be plucked up without plucking u…"

"The fire of hell is called eternal, only because it never ends. Still, there is change in the pains of the lost...Hence in hell true eternity does not exist, but rather time."

"I answer that, It was necessary for woman to be made, as the Scripture says, as a "helper" to man; not, indeed, as a helpmate in other works, as some say, since man can be more efficiently helped by a…"

"Baptism is the door of the spiritual life and the gateway to the sacraments."

"It is on account neither of God's weakness nor ignorance that evil comes into the world, but rather it is due to the order of his wisdom and the greatness of his goodness that diverse grades of goodne…"

"It must be said that charity can, in no way, exist along with mortal sin."

"The highest perfection of human life consists in the mind of man being detached from care, for the sake of God."

"But if man's affection be one of passion, then it is moved also in regard to other animals: for since the passion of pity is caused by the afflictions of others; and since it happens that even irratio…"