God has need for our worship. It is we who need to show our gratitude for what we have received. — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Whenever God wakes in us, our thinking becomes clear - nothing is missing. — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
God should not be called an individual substance, since the principal of individuation is matter. — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
To disparage the dictate of reason is equivalent to contemning the command of God. — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
There must be must be a first mover existing above all – and this we call God. — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Because we cannot know what God is, but only what He is not, we cannot consider how He is but only how… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
When the devil is called the god of this world, it is not because he made it, but because we serve him… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
The only-begotten Son of God, wanting to make us sharers in His divinity, assumed our nature, so that He, made man, might… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
To the Everlasting Father, And the Son who made us free And the Spirit, God proceeding From them Each eternally, Be salvation,… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Grant me, O Lord my God, a mind to know you, a heart to seek you, wisdom to find you, conduct pleasing… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
The knowledge of God is the cause of things. For the knowledge of God is to all creatures what the knowledge of… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Bestow upon me, O Lord my God, understanding to know thee, diligence to seek thee, wisdom to find thee, and a faithfulness… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
“Creator of all things, true source of light and wisdom, origin of all being, graciously let a ray of your light penetrate… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
“God is not, like creatures, made up of parts. God is spirit, without bodily dimensions. Firstly, no body can cause change without… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Whatever is in motion must be put in motion by another. If that by which it is put in motion be itself… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
“A capacity as such is directed to an act. Wherefore we seek to know the nature of a capacity from the act to which… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share
“Yet no-one can say that God has not a Word, for it would follow that God is most foolish.” — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share
If forgers and malefactors are put to death by the secular power, there is much more reason for excommunicating and even putting to death… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share
Now, nothing can be brought from potentiality to actual existence except through something actually existing — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share
By the divine providence [animals] are intended for man's use... Hence it is not wrong for man to make use of them, either by… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share
“What causes love, since it is a passion, is its object; and since it is a sort of affinity or agreement with the object,… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share
The image of God always abides in the soul, whether this image be obsolete and clouded over as to amount to almost nothing; or… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share
Charity, by which God and neighbor are loved, is the most perfect friendship. — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share
Beauty adds to goodness a relation to the cognitive faculty: so that "good" means that which simply pleases the appetite; while the "beautiful" is… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share
“God is not, like creatures, made up of parts. God is spirit, without bodily dimensions. Firstly, no body can cause change without itself being… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share
