Thomas Aquinas Quotes
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Good and evil are essential differences of the act of the will. For good and evil pertain essentially to the will; just as truth and falsehood pertain to the reason, the act of which is distinguished essentially by the difference of truth and falsehood (according as we say that an opinion is true or false.) Consequently, good and evil volition are acts differing in species.
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A man should remind himself that an object of faith is not scientifically demonstrable, lest presuming to demonstrate what is of faith, he should produce inconclusive reasons and offer occasion for unbelievers to scoff at a faith based on such ground.
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A man does not always choose what his guardian angel intends.
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Since faith rests upon infallible truth, and since the contrary of a truth can never be demonstrated, it is clear that the arguments brought against faith cannot be demonstrations, but are difficulties that can be answered.
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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.
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An angel can illumine the thought and mind of man by strengthening the power of vision and by bringing within his reach some truth which the angel himself contemplates.
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Baptism is the door of the spiritual life and the gateway to the sacraments.
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There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.
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The minister to whom confession is made is the delegate of Christ, Who is the Judge of the living and the dead.
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Eternity is called whole, not because it has parts, but because it is lacking in nothing.
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He suddenly announced that he could not write any more since "All that I have written seems like straw to me."
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It is unlawful to add anything to the words of Holy Scripture regarding the sense.
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Pray thee, spare, thyself at times: for it becomes a wise man sometimes to relax the high pressure of his attention to work.
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A man's heart is right when he wills what God wills.
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Give, expecting nothing there of.
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To love is to will the good of the other.
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I cannot go on.... All that I have written seems to me like so much straw compared to what I have seen and what has been revealed to me.
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The last end of every maker, as such, is himself, for what we make we use for our own sake; and if at any time a man make a thing for the sake of something else, it is referred to his own good, whether his use, his pleasure, or his virtue.
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Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.
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Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them.
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Better to illuminate than merely to shine; to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate.
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Law has the power to compel: indeed, the ability to enforce is a condition of the ability to command.
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Every cell in us worships God.
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To convert somebody go and take them by the hand and guide them.