Thomas Aquinas Quotes
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Without sanctifying grace it is not possible to refrain long from mortal sin.
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Thus Angels' Bread is made The Bread of man today: The Living Bread from Heaven With figures doth away: O wondrous gift indeed! The poor and lowly may Upon their Lord and Master feed.
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Baptism is the door of the spiritual life and the gateway to the sacraments.
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To love is to will the good of the other.
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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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Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.
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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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Believing is an act of the intellect assenting to the divine truth by command of the will moved by God through grace.
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To restore man, who had been laid low by sin, to the heights of divine glory, the Word of the eternal Father, though containing all things within His immensity, willed to become small. This He did not by putting aside His greatness but by taking to Himself our littleness.
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Mercy without justice is the mother of dissolution; justice without mercy is cruelty.
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Eternity is called whole, not because it has parts, but because it is lacking in nothing.
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If you seek patience, you will find no better example than the cross. Great patience occurs in two ways: either when one patiently suffers much, or when one suffers things which one is able to avoid and yet does not avoid. Christ endured much on the cross, and did so patiently, because when he suffered he did not threaten; he was led like a sheep to the slaughter and he did not open his mouth.
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I answer that, Even, as in the blessed in heaven there will be most perfect charity, so in the damned there will be the most perfect hate.
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Do not wish to jump immediately from the streams to the sea, because one has to go through easier things to the more difficult.
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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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Gods are called many by the error of some who worshipped many deities, thinking as they did the planets and other stars were gods, and also the separate parts of the world.
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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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I receive Thee ransom of my soul. For love of Thee have I studied and kept vigil toiled preached and taught.
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Sing, my tongue, the Saviour's glory, Of His Flesh, the mystery sing; Of the Blood, all price exceeding, Shed by our Immortal King, Destined, for the world's redemption, From a noble Womb to spring.
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To convert somebody go and take them by the hand and guide them.
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Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice.
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O saving Victim, opening wide The gate of heaven to man below, Our foes press on from every side, Thine aid supply, Thy strength bestow.
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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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The servants of God...whether provoked by word or work, by keeping themselves tranquil and peaceful, evince a perfect nobleness of soul.