Thomas Aquinas

But man is freer than all the animals, on account of his free-will, with which he is endowed above all other animals.

— Thomas Aquinas

The soul, which is the first principle of life, is not a body, but the act of a body; just as heat,…

— Thomas Aquinas

A song is the exultation of the mind dwelling on eternal things, bursting forth in the voice.

— Thomas Aquinas

Here 'neath veils, my Saviour darkly I behold; To my thirsting spirit all thy light unfold; Face to face in heaven let…

— Thomas Aquinas

The Eucharist is the Sacrament of Love; It signifies Love, It produces love. The Eucharist is the consummation of the whole spiritual…

— Thomas Aquinas

I answer that, Even, as in the blessed in heaven there will be most perfect charity, so in the damned there will…

— Thomas Aquinas

That the saints may enjoy their beatitude and the grace of God more abundantly they are permitted to see the punishment of…

— Thomas Aquinas

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

— Thomas Aquinas

The theologian considers sin mainly as an offence against God; the moral philosopher as contrary to reasonableness.

— Thomas Aquinas

We are like children, who stand in need of masters to enlighten us and direct us; God has provided for this, by…

— Thomas Aquinas

Down in adoration falling, Lo! the sacred Host we hail; Lo! o'er ancient forms departing, Newer rites of grace prevail; Faith for…

— Thomas Aquinas

We can't have full knowledge all at once. We must start by believing; then afterwards we may be led on to master…

— Thomas Aquinas

For although the will cannot be inwardly moved by any creature, yet it can be moved inwardly by God.

— Thomas Aquinas

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

— Thomas Aquinas

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

— Thomas Aquinas

The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to…

— Thomas Aquinas

If forgers and malefactors are put to death by the secular power, there is much more reason for excommunicating and even putting…

— Thomas Aquinas

It is possible to demonstrate God's existence, although not a priori, yet a posteriori from some work of His more surely known…

— Thomas Aquinas

The blessed in the kingdom of heaven will see the punishments of the damned, in order that their bliss be more delightful…

— Thomas Aquinas

Thus Angels' Bread is made The Bread of man today: The Living Bread from Heaven With figures doth away: O wondrous gift…

— Thomas Aquinas

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

— Thomas Aquinas

To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone…

— Thomas Aquinas

Whatever a man has in superabundance is owed, of natural right, to the poor for their sustenance.

— Thomas Aquinas

“If you are looking for the way by which you should go, take Christ, because he himself is the way.”

— Thomas Aquinas

Now, nothing can be brought from potentiality to actual existence except through something actually existing

— Thomas Aquinas

O saving Victim, opening wide The gate of heaven to man below, Our foes press on from every side, Thine aid supply,…

— Thomas Aquinas

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

— Thomas Aquinas

Law has the power to compel: indeed, the ability to enforce is a condition of the ability to command.

— Thomas Aquinas

If a man deliberately abstains from wine to such an extent that he does serious harm to his nature, he will not…

— Thomas Aquinas

Believing is an act of the intellect assenting to the divine truth by command of the will moved by God through grace.

— Thomas Aquinas

Affirmative precepts are distinguished from negative whenever one is not comprised in the other; thus, that of honoring parents does not comprise…

— Thomas Aquinas

Man should not consider his material possession his own, but as common to all, so as to share them without hesitation when…

— Thomas Aquinas

Mistakes are made on two counts: an argument is either based on error or incorrectly developed.

— Thomas Aquinas

Likewise grace and glory are referred to the same genus, since grace is nothing other than a certain first beginning of glory…

— Thomas Aquinas

The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work, but in the excellence of…

— Thomas Aquinas

The custom of the Church has very great authority and ought to be jealously observed in all things.

— Thomas Aquinas

Even as in heaven there will be most perfect charity, so in hell there will be the most perfect hate.

— Thomas Aquinas