Thomas Aquinas Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Thomas Aquinas
Thomas Aquinas Famous Quotes & Sayings
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The Blessed Eucharist is the perfect Sacrament of the Lord's Passion, since It contains Christ Himself and his Passion.
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) ...
Arrive at knowledge over small streamlets, and do not plunge immediately into the ocean, since progress must go from the easier to the more difficult.
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,
If a man deliberately abstains from wine to such an extent that he does serious harm to his nature, he will not be free from blame.
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.
Man cannot live without joy. That is why one deprived of spiritual joys goes over to carnal pleasures.
The Stone is one, the Medicine is one, to which we add nothing, only in the preparation removing superfluities.
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.
An act of love always tends towards two things; to the good that one wills, and to the person for whom one wills it.
The blessed in the kingdom of heaven will see the punishments of the damned, in order that their bliss be more delightful for them.
Knowledge depends on the mode of the knower; for what is known is in the knower according to the measure of his mode
The Eucharist is the Sacrament of Love; It signifies Love, It produces love. The Eucharist is the consummation of the whole spiritual life.
To pretend angels do not exist because they are invisible is to believe we never sleep because we don't see ourselves sleeping.
Do not wish to jump immediately from the streams to the sea, because one has to go through easier things to the more difficult.
The Cross to me is certain salvation. The Cross is that which I ever adore. The Cross of the Lord is with me. The Cross is my refuge.
How is it they live in such harmony, the billions of stars, when most men can barely go a minute without declaring war in their minds?
I would rather feel compassion than know the meaning of it. I would hope to act with compassion without thinking of personal gain.
In the realm of evil thoughts none induces to sin as much as do thoughts that concern the pleasure of the flesh.
Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.
It is a sin directly against one's neighbour, since one man cannot over-abound in external riches, without another man lacking them.
I cannot go on ... All that I have written seems to me like so much straw compared to what I have seen and what has been revealed to me.
We can't have full knowledge all at once. We must start by believing; then afterwards we may be led on to master the evidence for ourselves.
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.
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.
Further, nothing, except sin, is contrary to an act of virtue. But war is contrary to peace. Therefore war is always a sin.
Of all the pursuits open to men, the search for wisdom is most perfect, more sublime, more profitable, and more full of joy.
The highest perfection of human life consists in the mind of man being detached from care, for the sake of God.
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.
The principal act of courage is to endure and withstand dangers doggedly rather than to attack them.
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.
Because we cannot know what God is, but only what He is not, we cannot consider how He is but only how He is not.
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.
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
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.
A thing is lovable according as it is good. But God is infinite good. Therefore He is infinitely lovable.
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.