Thomas Aquinas Quotes About Heart

Quotes about: Heart

• Fear is such a powerful emotion for humans that when we allow it to take us over, it drives compassion right out of our hearts.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Powerful, Heart, Compassion

• Give us, O Lord, a steadfast heart, which no unworthy affection may drag downwards; give us an unconquered heart, which no tribulation can wear out; give us an upright heart, which no unworthy purpose may tempt aside. Bestow upon us also, O Lord our God, understanding to know you, diligence to seek you, wisdom to find you, and a faithfulness that may finally embrace you; through Jesus Christ our Lord.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Jesus, Heart, Giving

• Grant me, O Lord my God, a mind to know you, a heart to seek you, wisdom to find you, conduct pleasing to you, faithful perseverance in waiting for you, and a hope of finally embracing you. Amen.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Perseverance, Heart, Waiting

• Nothing created has ever been able to fill the heart of man. God alone can fill it infinitely.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Heart, Men, Able

• One day when Thomas Aquinas was preaching to the local populace on the love of God, he saw an old woman listening attentively to his every word. And inspired by her eagerness to learn more about her God whom she loved so dearly, he said to the people: It is better to be this unlearned woman, loving God with all her heart, than the most learned theologian lacking love.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Heart, People, Listening

• A man's heart is right when he wills what God wills.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Heart, Men, Gods Will

• We can open our hearts to God, but only with Divine help.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Heart, Divine Help, Helping

  "Questiones disputatae: De veritate (Disputed Questions: On Truth)". Book by Thomas Aquinas (Question 24, Article 15, Ad. 2), 1256-1259.

• Godhead here in hiding, whom I adore Masked by these bare shadows, shape and nothing more, See, Lord, at thy service low lies here a heart Lost, all lost in wonder at the God thou art

  Thomas Aquinas

  Art, Lying, Shadow

  Saint Thomas (Aquinas), Mary T. Clark (2000). “An Aquinas Reader”, p.441, Fordham Univ Press

• They also have at that critical point of death the opportunity to be converted to God through repentance. And if they are so obstinate that even at the point of death their heart does not draw back from malice, it is possible to make a quite probable judgment that they would never come away from evil.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Heart, Opportunity, Evil

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