Thomas Aquinas Quotes
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It is requisite for the relaxation of the mind that we make use, from time to time, of playful deeds and jokes.
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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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The things that we love tell us what we are.
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Don't ask who said it? Ask what they said.
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If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.
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The soul is known by it's acts.
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If there were some solitary or feral man, the passions of the soul would be sufficient for him; by them he would be conformed to things in order that he might have knowledge of them. But because man is naturally political and social, there is need for one man to make his conceptions known to others, which is done with speech. So significant speech was needed if men were to live together. Which is why those of different tongues do not easily live together.
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If anyone without the right faith receives Baptism outside the Church, he does not receive it unto salvation ... From the comparison of the Church to Paradise, we learn that men can receive her Baptism even outside her fold, but that out there no one can receive or keep the salvation of the blessed.
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Mistakes are made on two counts: an argument is either based on error or incorrectly developed.
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God should not be called an individual substance, since the principle of individuation is matter.
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To pretend angels do not exist because they are invisible is to believe we never sleep because we don't see ourselves sleeping.
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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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God's precepts are light to the loving, heavy to the fearful.
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It would seem that the ingratitude, whereby a subsequent sin causes the return of sins previously forgiven, is a special sin. For, the giving of thanks belongs to counter passion, which is a necessary condition of justice. But justice is a special virtue. Therefore this ingratitude is a special sin. Thanksgiving is a special virtue. But ingratitude is opposed to thanksgiving. Therefore ingratitude is a special sin.
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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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God answered the prayers of animals.
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God is never angry for His sake, only for ours.
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It is only God who creates. Man merely rearranges.
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So, to detract from the perfection of creatures is to detract from the perfection of divine power.
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Christ was either liar, lunatic, or Lord!
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Baptism is the Sacrament of Faith. Now, dead faith does not suffice for salvation .. .Therefore, the Sacrament of Baptism cannot give salvation to a man whose will ... expels the form of faith.
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The greater the charity of the Saints in their heavenly home, the more they intercede for those who are still on their journey and the more they can help them by their prayers; the more they are united with God, the more effective those prayers are. This is in accordance with Divine order, which makes higher things react upon lower things, like the brightness of the sun filling the atmosphere.
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Charity is the form, mover, mother and root of all the virtues.
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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.