Thomas Aquinas Quotes
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The Angel's bread is made the Bread of man today.
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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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He who achieves power by violence does not truly become lord or master.
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Baptism is the door of the spiritual life and the gateway to the sacraments.
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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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Distinctions drawn by the mind are not necessarily equivalent to distinctions in reality.
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Devotion is a certain act of the will by which man gives himself promptly to divine service.
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The meaning of what is said is according to the motive for saying it: because things are not subject to speech, but speech to things. Therefore we should take account of the motive of the lawgiver, rather than of his very words.
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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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Law has the power to compel: indeed, the ability to enforce is a condition of the ability to command.
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Humility is the mark of a genuine disciple.
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We set forth our petitions before God, not in order to make known to Him our needs and desires, but rather so that we ourselves may realize that in these things it is necessary to turn to God for help.
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If... the motion of the earth were circular, it would be violent and contrary to nature, and could not be eternal, since ... nothing violent is eternal .... It follows, therefore, that the earth is not moved with a circular motion.
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Beauty adds to goodness a relation to the cognitive faculty: so that "good" means that which simply pleases the appetite; while the "beautiful" is something pleasant to apprehend.
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Every cell in us worships God.
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How can we live in harmony? First we need to know we are all madly in love with the same God.
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Mercy without justice is the mother of dissolution; justice without mercy is cruelty.
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Man can sin against nature in two ways. First, when he sins against his specific rational nature, acting contrary to reason. In this sense, we can say that every sin is a sin against man's nature, because it is against man's right reason.
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Nothing which implies contradiction falls under the omnipotence of God.
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All the efforts of the human mind cannot exhaust the essence of a single fly.
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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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God has no need for our worship. It is we who need to show our gratitude for what we have received.
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There must be must be a first mover existing above all – and this we call God.
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The celestial bodies are the cause of all that takes place in the sublunar world.