Thomas Aquinas Quotes - Page 7

Quotes about:

• Sin is a spiritual illness; thus sinners are in need of salvation.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Spiritual, Needs, Sin

  Saint Thomas (Aquinas) (2010). “The Academic Sermons (The Fathers of the Church, Mediaeval Continuation, Volume 11)”, p.47, CUA Press

  22 Copy quote

• If... the motion of the earth were circular, it would be violent and contrary to nature, and could not be eternal, since ... nothing violent is eternal .... It follows, therefore, that the earth is not moved with a circular motion.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Would Be, Earth, Violent

  "Commentaria in libros Aristotelis de caelo et mundo". Book by Thomas Aquinas, 1886.

  22 Copy quote

• Every cell in us worships God.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Cells, Worship, Worship God

  10 Copy quote

• 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

  8 Copy quote

• 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

  10 Copy quote

• Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Powerful, Passion, Character

  28 Copy quote

• Any error about creation also leads to an error about God.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Errors, Creation

  7 Copy quote

• For loving draws us more to things than knowing does, since good is found by going to the thing, whereas the true is found when the thing comes to us.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Love, Knowing, Doe

  5 Copy quote

• One will observe that all things are arranged according to their degrees of beauty and excellence, and that the nearer they are to God, the more beautiful and better they are.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Beautiful, Excellence, Degrees

  "Sermon-Conferences of St. Thomas Aquinas on the Apostles' Creed". Book by Thomas Aquinas, 13-14, 2005.

  4 Copy quote

• 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

  6 Copy quote

• God is never angry for His sake, only for ours.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Sake, Angry

  20 Copy quote

• There being an imminent danger for the faith, prelates must be questioned, even publicly, by their subjects.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Catholic, Danger, Paved Roads

  7 Copy quote

• A scrap of knowledge about sublime things is worth more than any amount about trivialities.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Sublime, Triviality, Scrap

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

  5 Copy quote

• Art is right reason in the doing of work.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Art, Reason, Art Is

  7 Copy quote

• Faith does not quench desire, but inflames it.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Desire, Doe, Quench

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

  9 Copy quote

• Beware the man of a single book.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Book, Men, Limitation

  8 Copy quote

• It may well happen that what is in itself the more certain on account of the weakness of our intelligence, which is dazzled by the clearest objects of nature; as the owl is dazzled by the light of the sun. Hence the fact that some happen to doubt about articles of faith is not due to the uncertain nature of the truths, but to the weakness of human intelligence; yet the slenderest knowledge that may be obtained of the highest things is more desirable than the most certain knowledge obtained of lesser things.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Christian, Light, Doubt

  Saint Thomas Aquinas, Catholic Way Publishing (2014). “The Summa Theologica: Complete Edition”, p.59, Catholic Way Publishing

  4 Copy quote

• Peace is the work of justice indirectly, in so far as justice removes the obstacles to peace; but it is the work of charity (love) directly, since charity, according to its very notion, causes peace.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Peace, Justice, Catholic

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

  18 Copy quote

• First, I say that he draws near to those who make peace with him. For God is the One who brings about peace; and where else should peace dwell than in peace?

  Thomas Aquinas

  Firsts, Should, Draws

  Saint Thomas (Aquinas) (2010). “The Academic Sermons (The Fathers of the Church, Mediaeval Continuation, Volume 11)”, p.48, CUA Press

  8 Copy quote

• Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Love, Relationship, Philosophical

  Saint Thomas (Aquinas) (1951). “St. Thomas Aquinas: Philosophical Texts”

  18 Copy quote

• Every judgement of conscience, be it right or wrong, be it about things evil in themselves or morally indifferent, is obligatory, in such wise that he who acts against his conscience always sins.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Wise, Wisdom, Powerful

  Saint Thomas (Aquinas) (1960). “St. Thomas Aquinas: Philosophical Texts”

  33 Copy quote

• Distinctions drawn by the mind are not necessarily equivalent to distinctions in reality.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Powerful, Reality, Mind

  Saint Thomas Aquinas (1951). “Philosophical Texts”, London : Oxford University Press

  14 Copy quote

• Down in adoration falling, Lo! the sacred Host we hail; Lo! o'er ancient forms departing, Newer rites of grace prevail; Faith for all defects supplying, Where the feeble senses fail.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Fall, Grace, Sacred

  14 Copy quote

• Because we cannot know what God is, but only what He is not, we cannot consider how He is but only how He is not.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Knows

  19 Copy quote

• Clearly the person who accepts the Church as an infallible guide will believe whatever the Church teaches.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Powerful, Believe, Scary

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

  33 Copy quote

Page 7 of 14

First

← Prev

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

Next →

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin