Thomas Aquinas Quotes About Soul

Quotes about: Soul

• The Sacrament of the Body of the Lord puts the demons to flight, defends us against the incentives to vice and to concupiscence, cleanses the soul from sin, quiets the anger of God, enlightens the understanding to know God, inflames the will and the affections with the love of God, fills the memory with spiritual sweetness, confirms the entire man in good, frees us from eternal death, multiplies the merits of a good life, leads us to our everlasting home, and re-animates the body to eternal life

  Thomas Aquinas

  Spiritual, Good Life, Memories

• There is within every soul a thirst for happiness and meaning.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Soul, Thirst

• The soul is perfected by knowledge and virtue.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Soul, Virtue

  Saint Thomas Aquinas, Aeterna Press (2015). “Of God and His Creatures”, p.188, Aeterna Press

• The soul is like an uninhabited world that comes to life only when God lays His head against us.

  Thomas Aquinas

  God, Soul, World

• The splendor of a soul in grace is so seductive that it surpasses the beauty of all created things.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Seductive, Grace, Soul

• 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

• The soul is known by it's acts.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Soul, Known

• If there were some solitary or feral man, the passions of the soul would be sufficient for him; by them he would be conformed to things in order that he might have knowledge of them. But because man is naturally political and social, there is need for one man to make his conceptions known to others, which is done with speech. So significant speech was needed if men were to live together. Which is why those of different tongues do not easily live together.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Communication, Passion, Men

• I receive Thee ransom of my soul. For love of Thee have I studied and kept vigil toiled preached and taught.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Soul, Ransom, Taught

  Saint Thomas (Aquinas), Mary T. Clark (2000). “An Aquinas Reader”, p.12, Fordham Univ Press

• Charity is not a potency of the soul, because if it were it would be natural. Nor is it a passion, because it is not in a sensitive potency in which are all passions. Nor is it a habit, because a habit is removed with difficulty; charity, however, is easily lost through one act of mortal sin. Therefore charity is not something created in the soul.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Passion, Soul, Would Be

• The soul, which is the first principle of life, is not a body, but the act of a body; just as heat, which is the principle of calefaction, is not a body, but an act of a body.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Soul, Body, Firsts

  Thomas Aquinas (1997). “Basic Writings of St. Thomas Aquinas: Volume One”, p.683, Hackett Publishing

• He that obstinately denieth the truth before men upon earth, wilfully refuseth his soul's health in heaven.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Men, Heaven, Soul

• Far graver is it to corrupt the faith that is the life of the soul than to counterfeit the money that sustains temporal life.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Soul, Counterfeit

• The servants of God...whether provoked by word or work, by keeping themselves tranquil and peaceful, evince a perfect nobleness of soul.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Servant Of God, Perfect, Soul

• The image of God always abides in the soul, whether this image be obsolete and clouded over as to amount to almost nothing; or whether it be obscured or disfigured, as is the case with sinners; or whether it be clear and beautiful as is the case with the just.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Beautiful, Soul, Obsolete

  "Summa Theologica". Book by Thomas Aquinas, I, q. 93, art. 8, ad 3, 1265 - 1274.

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