Thomas Aquinas Quotes About Saints

Quotes about: Saints

• In the life of the body a man is sometimes sick, and unless he takes medicine, he will die. Even so in the spiritual life a man is sick on account of sin. For that reason he needs medicine so that he may be restored to health; and this grace is bestowed in the Sacrament of Penance.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Spiritual, Men, Medicine

• To convert somebody go and take them by the hand and guide them.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Philosophical, Hands, Catholic

• The things that we love tell us what we are.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Love, Christian, Greatness

• To love God is something greater than to know Him.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Faith, Inspiration, Catholic

  St Thomas Aquinas (2013). “Summa Theologica, Volume 3 (Part II, Second Section)”, p.1302, Cosimo, Inc.

• If, then, you are looking for the way by which you should go, take Christ, because He Himself is the way.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Powerful, Catholic, Saint

• To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Faith, Powerful, Thoughtful

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

  Thomas Aquinas

  Powerful, Ethos, Catholic

  Saint Thomas (Aquinas) (1955). “Theological texts”

• The minister to whom confession is made is the delegate of Christ, Who is the Judge of the living and the dead.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Judging, Saint, Christ

• 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

• 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.

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

  Thomas Aquinas

  Philosophical, Thoughtful, Love Is

• Charity is the form, mover, mother and root of all the virtues.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Mother, Roots, Saint

• What does it take to become a saint? Will it.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Catholic, Doe, Saint

• 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, Church, Ark

  Saint Thomas (Aquinas) (2000). “The Aquinas Catechism: A Simple Explanation of the Catholic Faith by the Church's Greatest Theologian”, p.78, Sophia Institute Press

• The Church has ever proved indestructible. Her persecutors have failed to destroy her; in fact, it was during times of persecution that the Church grew more and more; while the persecutors themselves, and those whom the Church would destroy, are the very ones who came to nothing. . . .Again, errors have assailed her; but in fact, the greater the number of errors that have arisen, the more has the truth been made manifest. . . . Nor has the Church failed before the assaults of demons: for she is like a tower of refuge to all who fight against the Devil.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Fighting, Errors, Numbers

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

  Thomas Aquinas

  Powerful, Suffering, Saint

  Saint Thomas (Aquinas) (1955). “Theological texts”

• If someone knows from experience that daily Communion increases fervor without lessening reverence, then let him go every day. But if someone finds that reverence is lessened and devotion not much increased, then let him sometimes abstain, so as to draw near afterwards with better dispositions.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Christian, Holy Eucharist, Saint

• 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

  Powerful, Thoughtful, Love Is

• This Blood that but one drop of has the power to win all the world forgiveness of its world of sin.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Forgiveness, Winning, Blood

• 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

  Believe, Saint, May

• 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

  Mean, Omission, Catholic

  Saint Thomas (Aquinas) (2000). “The Aquinas Catechism: A Simple Explanation of the Catholic Faith by the Church's Greatest Theologian”, p.86, Sophia Institute Press

• Just as a man cannot live in the flesh unless he is born in the flesh, even so a man cannot have the spiritual life of grace unless he is born again spiritually. This regeneration is effected by Baptism: "Unless a man is born again of water and the Holy Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God" (Jn 3:5)

  Thomas Aquinas

  Spiritual, Men, Water

• Just as in one man there is one soul and one body, yet many members; even so the Catholic Church is one body, having many members. The soul that quickens this body is the Holy Spirit; and therefore in the Creed after confessing our belief in the Holy Spirit, we are bid to believe in the Holy Catholic Church.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Believe, Men, Catholic

• As the saints will rejoice in all goods, so will the damned grieve for all goods.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Powerful, Grieving, Saint

  THOMAS AQUINAS (1952). “GREAT BOOKS OF THE WESTERN WORLD”

• Just as in a physical body the operation of one member contributes to the good of the whole body, so it is in a spiritual body such as the Church. And since all the faithful are one body, the good of one member is communicated to another; everyone members, as the Apostle says, of one another [Eph 4:25]. For that reason, among the points of faith handed down by the Apostles, is that there is a community of goods in the Church, and this is expressed in the words Communion of Saints.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Spiritual, Community, Faithful

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