Thomas Aquinas Quotes
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The proper task of the Savior is that he is a savior; indeed, for this he came into the world: to seek and save what was lost.
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It covetousness is a sin against God, just as all mortal sins, in as much as man condemns things eternal for the sake of temporal things.
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Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.
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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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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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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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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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As mariners are guided into port by the shining of a star, so Christians are guided to heaven by Mary.
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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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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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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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If all the sins of the flesh are worthy of condemnation because by them man allows himself to be dominated by that which he has of the animal nature, much more deserving of condemnation are the sins against nature by which man degrades his own animal nature.
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Characteristics which define beauty are wholeness, harmony and radiance.
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Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice.
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The proper effect of the Eucharist is the transformation of man into God.
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By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments.
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The soul is perfected by knowledge and virtue.
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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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Eternity is called whole, not because it has parts, but because it is lacking in nothing.
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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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It seems that God does not exist; because if one of two contraries be infinite, the other would be altogether destroyed. But the word "God" means that He is infinite goodness. If, therefore, God existed, there would be no evil discoverable; but there is evil in the world. Therefore God does not exist.
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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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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 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.