Aquinas was once asked, with what compendium a man might become learned? He answered "By reading of one book. — Jeremy Taylor Copy Share Image
“Thomas Aquinas said that people are fundamentally good and seek the goodness that is God. It goes wrong when we allow ourselves… — Lucette Verboven Copy Share Image
“I couldn't make any judgment on the Summa, except to say this: I read it for about twenty minutes every night before… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“There are indeed solid ontological foundations for an understanding of signals of transformation. Both Thomas Aquinas and John Calvin take the notion… — James W Sire Copy Share Image
Commentators who today talk of 'The Dark Ages' when faith instead of reason was said to ruthlessly rule, have for their animadversions… — David Berlinski Copy Share Image
“John Finnis observed that, since there is no doctrine of subjective rights in Aquinas and there is such a doctrine in Suarez,… — Brian Tierney Copy Share Image
“Aquinas teaches: " As God did not bind His power to the Sacraments, so as to be unable to bestow the sacramental… — Joseph Pohle Copy Share Image
“As St. Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) taught, whatever we say about God is more unlike God than saying nothing. If we do say… — Thomas Keating Copy Share Image
“The attempt to understand morality in the legalistic terms of a natural law is ancient but is now mostly associated with the… — Knud Haakonsen 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
“There is ... a contemporary trend to make a sort of 'common intellect' out of society and forbid man his own independent… — Mary T. Clark Copy Share Image
Dawkins’s problem is that he doesn’t know the difference between probabilistic empirical theorizing and strict metaphysical demonstration, and thus misreads an attempt… — Edward Feser Copy Share Image
“Chili is one of those marvelous-simple, elemental, all-important, and fundamental concepts that has been elaborated out of all recognition: rather like justice,… — Markham Shaw Pyle Copy Share Image
“The Fear of the Lord, that is the beginning of wisdom, and therefore belongs to the beginnings, and is felt in the… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Here we must take account of one of St. Thomas's conceptual distinctions, which at first seems like unnecessary caviling. It is the… — Josef Pieper Copy Share Image
[To Aquinas] the intellect [stands] at the summit of ... the human soul. — Anthony John Patrick Kenny Copy Share Image
Evangelicals have largely misinterpreted Aquinas, and they have placed on him views that he did not hold. — Norman Geisler Copy Share Image
Aquinas brought an Aristotelian view of reason back into European culture, and lighted the way toward the Renaissance. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
If somebody is going to try to paste a person's view on epistemology to me, then give me Thomas Aquinas. Don't give… — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
Aquinas is worth reading. He has stood the test of time. And even where he errs, you can learn more from the… — Norman Geisler Copy Share Image
“Thomas Aquinas was asked, “What must I do to be a saint?” and he said, “Will it.” Be a saint, and you’ll… — Robert E. Barron Copy Share Image
“It was the outstanding fact about St. Thomas [Aquinas] that he loved books and lived on books ... When asked for what… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“As Aquinas, the quintessential theologian, says: “The notion of form is most fully realized in existence itself. And in God existence is… — Rudy Rucker Copy Share Image
Thomas Aquinas states parenthetically, as something entirely obvious, that men are more rational than women. For my part, I see no evidence… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
One day when Thomas Aquinas was preaching to the local populace on the love of God, he saw an old woman listening… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
“The fact is, the great intellectuals of the western religious tradition from Augustine to Aquinas and Peter Abelard became philosophically dominant. The… — R. Joseph Hoffmann Copy Share Image
“Aquinas said if you have knowledge you don’t need faith, and I think he was on to something, but for now all… — Vanessa Place Copy Share Image
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