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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
Grace renders us like God and a partaker of the divine nature.
— Thomas Aquinas
When the devil is called the god of this world, it is not because he made it, but because we serve him with our worldliness.
— Thomas Aquinas
The servants of God ... whether provoked by word or work, by keeping themselves tranquil and peaceful, evince a perfect nobleness of soul.
— 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
Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine
— Thomas Aquinas
There would not be a perfect likeness of God in the universe if all things were of one grade of being.
— Thomas Aquinas
I receive Thee ransom of my soul. For love of Thee have I studied and kept vigil toiled preached and taught ...
— Thomas Aquinas
Pray thee, spare, thyself at times: for it becomes a wise man sometimes to relax the high pressure of his attention to work.
— Thomas Aquinas
Hence it is predicated chiefly of the virtuous; then of the pleasant; and lastly of the useful.
— Thomas Aquinas
To love is to will the good of another.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Unbelief is the greatest of sins.
— Thomas Aquinas
If you want to be saved look the face of your Christ.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
The minister to whom confession is made is the delegate of Christ, Who is the Judge of the living and the dead.
— Thomas Aquinas
Law is nothing other than a certain ordinance of reason for the common good, promulgated by the person who has the care of the community.
— Thomas Aquinas
Mary means Star of the sea, for as mariners are guided to port by the ocean star, so Christians attain to glory through Mary's maternal intercession.
— Thomas Aquinas
One aspect of neighbourly love is that we must not merely will our neighbours good, but actually work to bring it about.
— Thomas Aquinas
Man cannot live without joy. That is why one deprived of spiritual joys goes over to carnal pleasures.
— Thomas Aquinas
For in order that man may do well, whether in the works of the active life, or in those of the contemplative life, he needs the fellowship of friends.
— Thomas Aquinas
An act of love always tends towards two things; to the good that one wills, and to the person for whom one wills it.
— Thomas Aquinas
The blessed in the kingdom of heaven will see the punishments of the damned, in order that their bliss be more delightful for them.
— Thomas Aquinas
Far graver is it to corrupt the faith that is the life of the soul than to counterfeit the money that sustains temporal life.
— Thomas Aquinas
To make peace either in oneself or among others, shows a man to be a follower of God,
— Thomas Aquinas
Law has the power to compel: indeed, the ability to enforce is a condition of the ability to command.
— Thomas Aquinas
He who is dying of hunger must be fed rather than taught.
— Thomas Aquinas
To teach in order to lead others to faith is the task of every preacher and of each believer.
— Thomas Aquinas
Beware of the person of one book
— Thomas Aquinas
As mariners are guided into port by the shining of a star, so Christians are guided to heaven by Mary.
— Thomas Aquinas
Grace is a certain beginning of glory in us.
— Thomas Aquinas
The Study of philosophy is not that we may know what men have thought, but what the truth of things is.
— Thomas Aquinas
Jesus Lord, kind Pelican, Cleanse my filth with Thy blood, One drop of which can save The whole world from all its sin
— Thomas Aquinas
God answered the prayers of animals.
— Thomas Aquinas
The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work, but in the excellence of the work he produces.
— Thomas Aquinas
Greed is a sin against God, just as all mortal sins, in as much as man condemns things eternal for the sake of temporal things,
— Thomas Aquinas
Devotion is a certain act of the will by which man gives himself promptly to divine service.
— Thomas Aquinas
All my words are but chaff next to the faith of a simple man.
— Thomas Aquinas
Beware the man of a single book.
— Thomas Aquinas
God himself would not permit evil in this world if good did not come of it for the benefit and harmony of the universe.
— Thomas Aquinas
The Blessed Eucharist is the perfect Sacrament of the Lord's Passion, since It contains Christ Himself and his Passion.
— Thomas Aquinas
Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become addicted to carnal pleasures.
— Thomas Aquinas
It is written: "Wizards thou shalt not suffer to live" (Ex. 22:18); and: "In the morning I put to death all the wicked of the land" (Ps. 100:8) ...
— Thomas Aquinas
To virginity is awarded the tribute of the highest beauty
— Thomas Aquinas
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.
— Thomas Aquinas
Give, expecting nothing there of.
— Thomas Aquinas
Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them.
— 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
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 necessary for the perfection of human society that there should be men who devote their lives to contemplation.
— Thomas Aquinas
God should not be called an individual substance, since the principal of individuation is matter.
— 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
Our manner of knowing is so weak that no philosopher could perfectly investigate the nature of even one little fly.
— 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
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.
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
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
it remains for us to treat of His image,
— Thomas Aquinas
A scrap of knowledge about sublime things is worth more than any amount about trivialities.
— Thomas Aquinas
Honor is due to God and to persons of great excellence as a sign of attestation of excellence already existing; not that honor makes them excellent.
— 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
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
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
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
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
Mercy without justice is the mother of dissolution; justice without mercy is cruelty.
— Thomas Aquinas
The greatness of the human being consists in this: that it is capable of the universe. — 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
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
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
University of Chicago is a Baptist school, where atheist professors teach Jewish students about St. Thomas Aquinas.
— Martin Gardner
If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.
— Thomas Aquinas
If you want to be saved look at the face of your Christ.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
