Thomas Aquinas Quotes
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If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.
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Theology is taught by God, teaches God, and leads to God.
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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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Law has the power to compel: indeed, the ability to enforce is a condition of the ability to command.
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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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The same fire" (which he decides to be material) " torments the damned in hell and the just in purgatory...The least pain in purgatory exceeds the greatest in this life.
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To love is to will the good of the other.
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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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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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Baptism is the door of the spiritual life and the gateway to the sacraments.
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God destines us for an end beyond the grasp of reason.
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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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Eternity is called whole, not because it has parts, but because it is lacking in nothing.
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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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There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.
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One faith, St. Paul writes (Eph. 4:5). Hold most firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this, and you dissolve the unity of the Church ... We must hold this for certain, namely: that the faith of the people at the present day is one with the faith of the people in past centuries. Were this not true, then we would be in a different church than they were in and, literally, the Church would not be One.
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Without doubt one is allowed to resist against the unjust aggressor to one's life, one's goods or one's physical integrity; sometimes, even 'til the aggressor's death... In fact, this act is aimed at preserving one's life or one's goods and to make the aggressor powerless. Thus, it is a good act, which is the right of the victim.
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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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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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To convert somebody go and take them by the hand and guide them.
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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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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.