Thomas Aquinas Quotes
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Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.
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We are like children, who stand in need of masters to enlighten us and direct us; God has provided for this, by appointing his angels to be our teachers and guides.
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Now this relaxation of the mind from work consists on playful words or deeds. Therefore it becomes a wise and virtuous man to have recourse to such things at times.
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Just as in one man there is one soul and one body, yet many members; even so the Catholic Church is one body, having many members. The soul that quickens this body is the Holy Spirit; and therefore in the Creed after confessing our belief in the Holy Spirit, we are bid to believe in the Holy Catholic Church.
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Charity brings to life again those who are spiritually dead.
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He who is dying of hunger must be fed rather than taught.
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Natural inclinations are present in things from God, who moves all things. So it is impossible for the natural inclinations of a species to be toward evil in itself. But there is in all perfect animals a natural inclination toward carnal union. Therefore it is impossible for carnal union to be evil in itself.
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It is possible to demonstrate God's existence, although not a priori, yet a posteriori from some work of His more surely known to us.
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He who does not embrace the teaching of the Church does not have the habit of faith.
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Down in adoration falling, Lo! the sacred Host we hail; Lo! o'er ancient forms departing, Newer rites of grace prevail; Faith for all defects supplying, Where the feeble senses fail.
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If you can live amid injustice without anger, you are immoral as well as unjust.
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A man does not always choose what his guardian angel intends.
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By the divine providence animals are intended for man's use... Hence it is not wrong for man to make use of them, either by killing or in any other way whatsoever.
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There is no leisure about politics.
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Far graver is it to corrupt the faith that is the life of the soul than to counterfeit the money that sustains temporal life.
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The celestial bodies are the cause of all that takes place in the sublunar world.
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Justice is in subjects as well as in rulers.
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Every cell in us worships God.
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Man is closer to God according to his existence in grace than he is according to his existence in nature.
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Distinctions drawn by the mind are not necessarily equivalent to distinctions in reality.
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Clearly the person who accepts the Church as an infallible guide will believe whatever the Church teaches.
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Theology is taught by God, teaches God, and leads to God.
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Whatever a man has in superabundance is owed, of natural right, to the poor for their sustenance.
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Love works in a circle, for the beloved moves the lover by stamping a likeness, and the lover then goes out to hold the beloved inreality. Who first was the beginning now becomes the end of motion.