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Wonder is the desire of knowledge.
— Thomas Aquinas
Sin is a spiritual illness; thus sinners are in need of salvation.
— Thomas Aquinas
The truth of the Christian faith surpasses the capacity of reason.
— Thomas Aquinas
This Blood that but one drop of has the power to win all the world forgiveness of its world of sin.
— Thomas Aquinas
There is within every soul a thirst for happiness and meaning.
— Thomas Aquinas
Thomas Aquinas states parenthetically, as something entirely obvious, that men are more rational than women. For my part, I see no evidence of this.
— Bertrand Russell
Rarely affirm, seldom deny, always distinguish.
— Thomas Aquinas
The splendor of a soul in grace is so seductive that it surpasses the beauty of all created things.
— Thomas Aquinas
But man is freer than all the animals, on account of his free-will, with which he is endowed above all other animals.
— Thomas Aquinas
Practical sciences proceed by building up; theoretical science by resolving into components.
— Thomas Aquinas
For although the will cannot be inwardly moved by any creature, yet it can be moved inwardly by God.
— Thomas Aquinas
Any error about creation also leads to an error about God.
— Thomas Aquinas
Angels need an assumed body, not for themselves, but on our account.
— Thomas Aquinas
Faith will tell us Christ is present, When our human senses fail.
— Thomas Aquinas
A scrap of knowledge about sublime things is worth more than any amount about trivialities.
— Thomas Aquinas
Distinctions drawn by the mind are not necessarily equivalent to distinctions in reality.
— Thomas Aquinas
The custom of the Church has very great authority and ought to be jealously observed in all things.
— Thomas Aquinas
Art is right reason in the doing of work.
— Thomas Aquinas
Man has free choice, or otherwise counsels, exhortations, commands, prohibitions, rewards and punishments would be in vain.
— Thomas Aquinas
University of Chicago is a Baptist school, where atheist professors teach Jewish students about St. Thomas Aquinas.
— Martin Gardner
Even as in heaven there will be most perfect charity, so in hell there will be the most perfect hate.
— Thomas Aquinas
All men are equal in nature, and also in original sin. It is in the merits and demerits of their actions that they differ.
— Thomas Aquinas
Most men seem to live according to sense rather than reason.
— Thomas Aquinas
Give, expecting nothing there of.
— Thomas Aquinas
Man should not consider his material possessions as his own, but as common to all, so as to share them without hesitation when others are in need
— Thomas Aquinas
O saving Victim, opening wide The gate of heaven to man below, Our foes press on from every side, Thine aid supply, Thy strength bestow.
— Thomas Aquinas
God destines us for an end beyond the grasp of reason.
— Thomas Aquinas
Mistakes are made on two counts: an argument is either based on error or incorrectly developed.
— Thomas Aquinas
A thing is lovable according as it is good. But God is infinite good. Therefore He is infinitely lovable.
— Thomas Aquinas
If you are looking for the way by which you should go, take Christ, because he himself is the way.
— Thomas Aquinas
By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments.
— Thomas Aquinas
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.
— Thomas Aquinas
If you want to be saved look at the face of your Christ.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
He who does not embrace the teaching of the Church does not have the habit of faith.
— Thomas Aquinas
God is not related to creatures as though belonging to a different "genus," but as transcending every "genus," and as the principle of all "genera.
— Thomas Aquinas
Charity is the form, mover, mother and root of all the virtues.
— Thomas Aquinas
Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.
— Thomas Aquinas
Mercy without justice is the mother of dissolution; justice without mercy is cruelty.
— Thomas Aquinas
How can we live in harmony? First we need to know we are all madly in love with the same God.
— Thomas Aquinas
Charity is love; not all love is charity.
— Thomas Aquinas
To live well is to work well, to show a good activity.
— Thomas Aquinas
The only-begotten Son of God, wanting to make us sharers in His divinity, assumed our nature, so that He, made man, might make men gods.
— Thomas Aquinas
Of all the pursuits open to men, the search for wisdom is most perfect, more sublime, more profitable, and more full of joy.
— Thomas Aquinas
It is a sin to regard the fact that God cannot do the impossible as a limitation on his powers.
— Thomas Aquinas
Our manner of knowing is so weak that no philosopher could perfectly investigate the nature of even one little fly.
— Thomas Aquinas
Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them.
— Thomas Aquinas
There is but one Church in which men find salvation, just as outside the ark of Noah it was not possible for anyone to be saved.
— Thomas Aquinas
The highest perfection of human life consists in the mind of man being detached from care, for the sake of God.
— Thomas Aquinas
Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in the circumstances confronting him.
— Thomas Aquinas
Concerning perfect blessedness which consists in a vision of God.
— Thomas Aquinas
To put it in the terms of St. Thomas Aquinas: An unjust law is a human law that is not rooted in eternal law and natural law.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
For loving draws us more to things than knowing does, since good is found by going to the thing, whereas the true is found when the thing comes to us.
— Thomas Aquinas
A song is the exultation of the mind dwelling on eternal things, bursting forth in the voice.
— Thomas Aquinas
The principal act of courage is to endure and withstand dangers doggedly rather than to attack them.
— Thomas Aquinas
But a dauntless faith believes
— Thomas Aquinas
nothing can be known, save what is true;
— Thomas Aquinas
Wonder is the desire for knowledge.
— Thomas Aquinas
Friendship makes you feel as one with your friend.
— Thomas Aquinas
To convert somebody go and take them by the hand and guide them.
— Thomas Aquinas
One cannot use an evil action with reference to a good intention.
— Thomas Aquinas
it remains for us to treat of His image,
— Thomas Aquinas
God has need for our worship. It is we who need to show our gratitude for what we have received.
— Thomas Aquinas
Hold firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this, and you dissolve the unity of the Church.
— Thomas Aquinas
The things we love tell us who we are. — Thomas Aquinas
It would be superfluous to receive by faith, things that can be known by natural reason
— Thomas Aquinas
Further, nothing, except sin, is contrary to an act of virtue. But war is contrary to peace. Therefore war is always a sin.
— Thomas Aquinas
Better to illuminate than merely to shine to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate.
— Thomas Aquinas
The slenderest knowledge that may be obtained of the highest things is more desirable than the most certain knowledge obtained of lesser things.
— Thomas Aquinas
The human mind may perceive truth only through thinking, as is clear from Augustine.
— Thomas Aquinas
O how unspeakable is this Sacrament which sets our affections ablaze with charity ... It is the fulfillment of Christ's Mystical Body.
— Thomas Aquinas
In the end, we know God as unknown.
— Thomas Aquinas
If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.
— Thomas Aquinas
The light of faith makes us see what we believe.
— Thomas Aquinas
It would seem that zeal is not an effect of love. For zeal is a beginning of contention.
— Thomas Aquinas
An angel can illume the thought and mind of man by strengthening the power of vision.
— Thomas Aquinas
The existence of a prime mover- nothing can move itself; there must be a first mover. The first mover is called God.
— Thomas Aquinas
It is only God who creates. Man merely rearranges.
— Thomas Aquinas
It is necessary for the perfection of human society that there should be men who devote their lives to contemplation.
— Thomas Aquinas
The soul is known by it's acts.
— Thomas Aquinas
