Thomas Aquinas Quotes
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Practical sciences proceed by building up; theoretical science by resolving into components.
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Fear is such a powerful emotion for humans that when we allow it to take us over, it drives compassion right out of our hearts.
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In the realm of evil thoughts none induces to sin as much as do thoughts that concern the pleasure of the flesh.
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Most men seem to live according to sense rather than reason.
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The greatest kindness one can render to any man consists in leading him from error to truth.
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Not everyone who is enlightened by an angel knows that he is enlightened by him.
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The Sacrament of the Body of the Lord puts the demons to flight, defends us against the incentives to vice and to concupiscence, cleanses the soul from sin, quiets the anger of God, enlightens the understanding to know God, inflames the will and the affections with the love of God, fills the memory with spiritual sweetness, confirms the entire man in good, frees us from eternal death, multiplies the merits of a good life, leads us to our everlasting home, and re-animates the body to eternal life.
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We should love others truly, for their own sakes rather than our own.
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To be united to God in unity of person was not fitting to human flesh, according to its natural endowments, since it was above his dignity; nevertheless, it was fitting that God, by reason of his infinite goodness, should unite it to himself for human salvation.
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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.
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Whenever God wakes in us, our thinking becomes clear - nothing is missing.
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It is not theft, properly speaking, to take secretly and use another's property in a case of extreme need: because that which he takes for the support of his life becomes his own property by reason of that need.
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God is never angry for His sake, only for ours.
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See to whom Jesus is drawing near, three kinds of people: to those who make peace with him, to those who are devoted to God, and to those who are kind to their neighbors.
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In the life of the body a man is sometimes sick, and unless he takes medicine, he will die. Even so in the spiritual life a man is sick on account of sin. For that reason he needs medicine so that he may be restored to health; and this grace is bestowed in the Sacrament of Penance.
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God should not be called an individual substance, since the principle of individuation is matter.
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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.
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For creation is not a change, but that dependence of the created existence on the principle from which it is instituted, and thus is of the genus of relation; whence nothing prohibits it being in the created as in the subject. Creation is thus said to be a kind of change, according to the way of understanding, insofar as our intellect accepts one and the same thing as not existing before and afterwards existing.
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Law; an ordinance of reason for the common good, made by him who has care of the community.
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Jesus Lord, kind Pelican, Cleanse my filth with Thy blood, One drop of which can save The whole world from all its sin.
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Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in the circumstances confronting him.
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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.
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Three conditions are necessary for Penance: contrition, which is sorrow for sin, together with a purpose of amendment; confession of sins without any omission; and satisfaction by means of good works.
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It is a sin to regard the fact that God cannot do the impossible as a limitation on his powers.