Thomas Aquinas Quotes
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The things that we love tell us what we are.
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Reason in man is rather like God in the world.
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God answered the prayers of animals.
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It is due to neither impotence nor ignorance on God’s part that evils occur in the world, but it is owing to the order of his wisdom and to the greatness of his goodness, whence come the many and divers grades of goodness in things, many of which would be lacking were he to allow no evil to exist. Thus there would be no good of patience without the evil of persecution, nor the good of the preservation of its life in a lion, without the evil of the destruction of the animals on which it lives.
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Mistakes are made on two counts: an argument is either based on error or incorrectly developed.
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He that obstinately denieth the truth before men upon earth, wilfully refuseth his soul's health in heaven.
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They also have at that critical point of death the opportunity to be converted to God through repentance. And if they are so obstinate that even at the point of death their heart does not draw back from malice, it is possible to make a quite probable judgment that they would never come away from evil.
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Sin is a spiritual illness; thus sinners are in need of salvation.
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When fear is excessive it can make many a man despair.
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Whatever is received is received according to the nature of the recipient.
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I would rather feel compassion than know the meaning of it. I would hope to act with compassion without thinking of personal gain.
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It would be superfluous to receive by faith, things that can be known by natural reason.
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What does it take to become a saint? Will it.
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If, then, you are looking for the way by which you should go, take Christ, because He Himself is the way.