Thomas Aquinas Quotes
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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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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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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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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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As mariners are guided into port by the shining of a star, so Christians are guided to heaven by Mary.
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Just as in a physical body the operation of one member contributes to the good of the whole body, so it is in a spiritual body such as the Church. And since all the faithful are one body, the good of one member is communicated to another; everyone members, as the Apostle says, of one another. For that reason, among the points of faith handed down by the Apostles, is that there is a community of goods in the Church, and this is expressed in the words Communion of Saints.
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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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We ought to cherish the body. Our body's substance is not from an evil principle, as the Manicheans imagine, but from God. And therefore, we ought to cherish the body by the friendship of love, by which we love God.
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The knowledge of God is the cause of things. For the knowledge of God is to all creatures what the knowledge of the artificer is to things made by his art.
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Without sanctifying grace it is not possible to refrain long from mortal sin.
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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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Nothing which implies contradiction falls under the omnipotence of God.
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Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice.
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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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Wonder was the motive that led people to philosophy ... wonder is a kind of desire in knowledge. It is the cause of delight because it carries with it the hope of discovery.
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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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It is necessary to posit something which is necessary of itself, and has no cause of its necessity outside of itself but is the cause of necessity in other things. And all people call this thing God.
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The proper effect of the Eucharist is the transformation of man into God.
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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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There must be must be a first mover existing above all – and this we call God.
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Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.
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In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority of the sovereign... Secondly, a just cause... Thirdly... a rightful intention.
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Eternity is called whole, not because it has parts, but because it is lacking in nothing.