Thomas Aquinas Quotes

It is requisite for the relaxation of the mind that we make use, from time to time, of playful deeds and jokes.
Thomas Aquinas

Time, Mind, Deeds

Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do.
Thomas Aquinas

Desire, Three, Necessary

All the efforts of the human mind cannot exhaust the essence of a single fly.
Thomas Aquinas

Mind, Human, Single

Love must precede hatred, and nothing is hated save through being contrary to a suitable thing which is loved. And hence it is that every hatred is caused by love.
Thomas Aquinas

Love, Nothing, Through

The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing.
Thomas Aquinas

Life, Another, Dead

That the saints may enjoy their beatitude and the grace of God more abundantly they are permitted to see the punishment of the damned in hell.
Thomas Aquinas

God, May, Enjoy

Love is a binding force, by which another is joined to me and cherished by myself.
Thomas Aquinas

Love, Another, Force

Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice.
Thomas Aquinas

Friendship, Science, Justice

Because we cannot know what God is, but only what He is not, we cannot consider how He is but only how He is not.
Thomas Aquinas

God, Cannot, Consider

Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in the circumstances confronting him.
Thomas Aquinas

Mind, Justice, Him

Whatever is received is received according to the nature of the recipient.
Thomas Aquinas

Nature, Whatever, According

Law is nothing other than a certain ordinance of reason for the common good, promulgated by the person who has the care of the community.
Thomas Aquinas

Good, Care, Nothing

There is but one Church in which men find salvation, just as outside the ark of Noah it was not possible for anyone to be saved.
Thomas Aquinas

Men, Find, Anyone

Three conditions are necessary for Penance: contrition, which is sorrow for sin, together with a purpose of amendment; confession of sins without any omission; and satisfaction by means of good works.
Thomas Aquinas

Good, Together, Purpose

By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments.
Thomas Aquinas

Nature, Men, Liberty

Good can exist without evil, whereas evil cannot exist without good.
Thomas Aquinas

Good, Evil, Cannot

Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.
Thomas Aquinas

Happiness, Good, Through

Hold firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this, and you dissolve the unity of the Church.
Thomas Aquinas

Faith, Church, Hold

If forgers and malefactors are put to death by the secular power, there is much more reason for excommunicating and even putting to death one convicted of heresy.
Thomas Aquinas

Power, Death, Put

It is clear that he does not pray, who, far from uplifting himself to God, requires that God shall lower Himself to him, and who resorts to prayer not to stir the man in us to will what God wills, but only to persuade God to will what the man in us wills.
Thomas Aquinas

God, Him, Prayer

The principal act of courage is to endure and withstand dangers doggedly rather than to attack them.
Thomas Aquinas

Courage, Rather, Act

We can't have full knowledge all at once. We must start by believing; then afterwards we may be led on to master the evidence for ourselves.
Thomas Aquinas

Knowledge, May, Start

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.
Thomas Aquinas

Wonder is the desire for knowledge.
Thomas Aquinas

Knowledge, Desire, Wonder

All that is true, by whomsoever it has been said has its origin in the Spirit.
Thomas Aquinas

True, Said, Spirit

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Biography

Nationality: Italian

Type: Theologian

Born: 1225

Died: 1274

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