Thomas Aquinas Quotes About Contemplation

Quotes about: Contemplation

• Better to illuminate than merely to shine; to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Powerful, Thoughtful, Love Is

  "Summa Theologica". Book by Thomas Aquinas (Part II-II, Question 188), 1485.

• It is necessary for the perfection of human society that there should be men who devote their lives to contemplation.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Men, Perfection, Contemplation

• Better to illuminate than merely to shine.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Shining, Contemplation, Contemplating

  "Summa Theologica". Book by Thomas Aquinas (Part II-II, Question 188), 1485.

• Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Contemplative Life, Practice, Contemplation

  St Thomas Aquinas (2013). “Summa Theologica, Volume 4 (Part III, First Section)”, p.1940, Cosimo, Inc.

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