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1 posted on 01/28/2009 9:37:07 PM PST by Salvation
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2 posted on 01/28/2009 9:39:24 PM PST by Salvation ( †With God all things are possible.†)
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I’m reading Aquinas’ “Light of Faith,” sometimes called the “Little Summa.” For anyone who doesn’t wish to attempt the “Big” Summa, the Light of Faith might be right up their alley. I have a lot of admiration for St. Thomas, a mighty man of God.


5 posted on 01/28/2009 10:55:09 PM PST by redhead (Don't look at ME! I voted for Sarah!)
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Bookmark. Bookmark and bookmark. Forever bookmark. I know you pinged me Salvation and I am so very grateful. I just love St. Thomas Aquinas.


7 posted on 01/29/2009 12:37:48 AM PST by GOP Poet
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“Wisdom is the highest intellectual virtue, combining a capacity for understanding principles with a vast knowledge of truly important things. Aristotle once wrote that it is better to know a little about lofty things than a lot about trivial things. St. Thomas was always striving to learn about the loftiest things of all - how to better know God and love Him. One sample of St. Thomas’s own advice in this regard is his illuminating contrast between the vice of curiousness (that habit so common in today’s world of frivolously flitting forever about from one trivial topic to the next, as perhaps in hours of near mindless web-surfing!) and the virtue of studiousness, the capacity to sustain focus and attention on the truly important things”

Excellent!!


8 posted on 01/29/2009 4:58:41 AM PST by SumProVita (Cogito, ergo...Sum Pro Vita. (Modified DeCartes))
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Wonderful! I can't read too much of St. Thomas.

I especially like the user friendly Summa Contra Gentiles I started reading Of God and His Creatures from the Jacques Maritain Center's website. There's much to explore.

9 posted on 01/29/2009 10:26:32 AM PST by Varda
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