Thomas Aquinas Quotes About Eternity

Quotes about: Eternity

• Eternity is called whole, not because it has parts, but because it is lacking in nothing.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Eternity, Lacking, Whole

  Thomas Aquinas (1997). “Basic Writings of St. Thomas Aquinas: Volume One”, p.75, Hackett Publishing

• The fire of hell is called eternal, only because it never ends. Still, there is change in the pains of the lost... Hence in hell true eternity does not exist, but rather time.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Pain, Fire, Doe

  "Summa Theologica". Book by Thomas Aquinas (Part I, Question 10, Article 3, Ad. 2), 1485.

• Future contingents cannot be certain to us, because we know them as such. They can be certain only to God whose understanding is in eternity above time. Just as a man going along a road does not see those who come after him; but the man who sees the whole road from a height sees all those who are going along the road at the same time.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Men, Understanding, Doe

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