Thomas Aquinas Quotes
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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 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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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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Mary means Star of the sea, for as mariners are guided to port by the ocean star, so Christians attain to glory through Mary's maternal intercession.
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The light of faith makes us see what we believe.
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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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Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.
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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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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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Devotion is a certain act of the will by which man gives himself promptly to divine service.
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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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The servants of God...whether provoked by word or work, by keeping themselves tranquil and peaceful, evince a perfect nobleness of soul.
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Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice.
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Grant me, O Lord my God, a mind to know you, a heart to seek you, wisdom to find you, conduct pleasing to you, faithful perseverance in waiting for you, and a hope of finally embracing you. Amen.
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God is not related to creatures as though belonging to a different "genus," but as transcending every "genus," and as the principle of all "genera.
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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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The proper effect of the Eucharist is the transformation of man into God.
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Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.
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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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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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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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Eternity is called whole, not because it has parts, but because it is lacking in nothing.
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Anger and the like are attributed to God on account of a similitude of effect. Thus, because to punish is properly the act of an angry man, God's punishment is metaphorically spoken of as His anger.
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Characteristics which define beauty are wholeness, harmony and radiance.