Thomas Aquinas Quotes About Animals

Quotes about: Animals

• By the divine providence [animals] are intended for man's use... Hence it is not wrong for man to make use of them, either by killing or in any other way whatsoever.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Animal, Men, Use

• 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.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Christian, Men, Animal

• Secondly, man sins against nature when he goes against his generic nature, that is to say, his animal nature. Now, it is evident that, in accord with natural order, the union of the sexes among animals is ordered towards conception. From this it follows that every sexual intercourse that cannot lead to conception is opposed to man's animal nature.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Christian, Sex, Men

• But man is freer than all the animals, on account of his free-will, with which he is endowed above all other animals.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Animal, Men, Free Will

  St Thomas Aquinas (2013). “Summa Theologica, Volume 2 (Part II, First Section)”, p.996, Cosimo, Inc.

• Natural inclinations are present in things from God, who moves all things. So it is impossible for the natural inclinations of a species to be toward evil in itself. But there is in all perfect animals a natural inclination toward carnal union. Therefore it is impossible for carnal union to be evil in itself.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Moving, Animal, Evil

  Thomas Aquinas (1975). “Summa Contra Gentiles: Book 3: Providence”, p.182, University of Notre Dame Pess

• It is due to neither impotence nor ignorance on God’s part that evils occur in the world, but it is owing to the order of his wisdom and to the greatness of his goodness, whence come the many and divers grades of goodness in things, many of which would be lacking were he to allow no evil to exist. Thus there would be no good of patience without the evil of persecution, nor the good of the preservation of its life in a lion, without the evil of the destruction of the animals on which it lives.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Ignorance, Greatness, Animal

  "'De Potentia' ('On Power')". Book by Thomas Aquinas, q. 3, art. 6, ad 4, dhspriory.org.

• God answered the prayers of animals.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Prayer, Animal

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