The world of pure spirits stretches between the divine nature and the world of human beings; because divine wisdom has ordained that… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
To pretend angels do not exist because they are invisible is to believe we never sleep because we don't see ourselves sleeping. — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
We are like children, who stand in need of masters to enlighten us and direct us; God has provided for this, by… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
There is, therefore, a more perfect intellectual life in the angels. In them the intellect does not proceed to self-knowledge from anything… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Thus Angels' Bread is made The Bread of man today: The Living Bread from Heaven With figures doth away: O wondrous gift… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Angels transcend every religion, every philosophy, every creed. In fact Angels have no religion as we know it... Their existence precedes every… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
An angel can illumine the thought and mind of man by strengthening the power of vision and by bringing within his reach… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Not everyone who is enlightened by an angel knows that he is enlightened by him. — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
A person is disposed to an act of choice by an angel ... in two ways. Sometimes, a man's understanding is enlightened… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
The Bread of angels has become the Bread of mankind; This heavenly Bread puts an end to all images; O wonderful reality!… — 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 Image
“Yet no-one can say that God has not a Word, for it would follow that God is most foolish.” — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
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 Image
Now, nothing can be brought from potentiality to actual existence except through something actually existing — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image