Thomas Aquinas Quotes
The blessed in the kingdom of heaven will see the punishments of the damned, in order that their bliss be more delightful for them.
Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.
St Thomas (Aqinas) loved books and lived on books... When asked for what he thanked God most, he answered simply, ‘I have understood every page I ever read’.
Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand.
To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.
Hold firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this, and you dissolve the unity of the Church.
Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder.
The author challenges how much sanctity has to do with sameness, as he says saints are as different from each other as those in any group -- even murderers.
I receive Thee ransom of my soul. For love of Thee have I studied and kept vigil toiled preached and taught…
The soul is like an uninhabited worldthat comes to life only whenGod lays His headagainst us.
If forgers and malefactors are put to death by the secular power, there is much more reason for excommunicating and even putting to death one convicted of heresy.
...this clumsy collision of two very impatient forms of ignorance was known as the quarrel of Science and Religion.
If, then, you are looking for the way by which you should go, take Christ, because He Himself is the way.
If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.
The knowledge of God is the cause of things. For the knowledge of God is to all creatures what the knowledge of the artificer is to things made by his art.
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 Study of philosophy is not that we may know what men have thought, but what the truth of things is.
If you are looking for the way by which you should go, take Christ, because he himself is the way.
It must be said that charity can, in no way, exist along with mortal sin.
Grant me, O Lord my God, a mind to know you, a heart to seek you, wisdom to find you, conduct pleasing to you, faithful perseverance in waiting for you, and a hope of finally embracing you. Amen.
Far graver is it to corrupt the faith that is the life of the soul than to counterfeit the money that sustains temporal life.
To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin.
Nothing which implies contradiction falls under the omnipotence of God.
Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.
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.
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.
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 about someone they know.
The principal act of courage is to endure and withstand dangers doggedly rather than to attack them.
A song is the exultation of the mind dwelling on eternal things, bursting forth in the voice.
Better to illuminate than merely to shine to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate.
Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not in hand.
