--- title: "4 Diverse Quotes By Thomas Aquinas" description: "4 Diverse quotes by Thomas Aquinas. Plus more from Thomas Aquinas and more Diverse sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/83f/thomas-aquinas-837_bible_in-questions-of-this-sort-there-are-two_757010.jpg" --- > [In questions of this sort there are two things to be observed. First, that the truth of the Scriptures be inviolably maintained.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-aquinas/in-questions-of-this-sort-there-are-two-things-to-be-observed-first/) [Thomas Aquinas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-aquinas/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/83f/thomas-aquinas-837_bible_in-questions-of-this-sort-there-are-two_757010.jpg) > [Because the divine goodness could not be adequately represented by one creature alone, God produced many and diverse creatures, that what was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-aquinas/because-the-divine-goodness-could-not-be-adequately-represented-by/) [Thomas Aquinas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-aquinas/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5dd/thomas-aquinas-837_creatures_because-the-divine-goodness-could-not-be_1283882.jpg) > [It is due to neither impotence nor ignorance on God’s part that evils occur in the world, but it is owing to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-aquinas/it-is-due-to-neither-impotence-nor-ignorance-on-god-s-part-that-evils/) [Thomas Aquinas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-aquinas/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9f1/thomas-aquinas-837_accounts_it-is-due-to-neither-impotence-nor-ignor_1541641.jpg) > [Because of the diverse conditions of humans, it happens that some acts are virtuous to some people, as appropriate and suitable to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-aquinas/because-of-the-diverse-conditions-of-humans-it-happens-that-some-acts/) [Thomas Aquinas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-aquinas/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/801/thomas-aquinas-837_appropriate_because-of-the-diverse-conditions-of-hum_2315994.jpg) ## Other authors on Diverse ## More by Thomas Aquinas > [Grace does not destroy nature, it perfects it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-aquinas/grace-does-not-destroy-nature-it-perfects-it/) [Thomas Aquinas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-aquinas/) > [Justice is in subjects as well as in rulers.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-aquinas/justice-is-in-subjects-as-well-as-in-rulers/) [Thomas Aquinas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-aquinas/) > [“A capacity as such is directed to an act. Wherefore we seek to know the nature of a capacity from the act to which…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-aquinas/a-capacity-as-such-is-directed-to-an-act-wherefore-we-seek-to-know/) [Thomas Aquinas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-aquinas/) > [“Yet no-one can say that God has not a Word, for it would follow that God is most foolish.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-aquinas/yet-no-one-can-say-that-god-has-not-a-word-for-it-would-follow-that/) [Thomas Aquinas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-aquinas/) > [Unbelief is the greatest of sins.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-aquinas/unbelief-is-the-greatest-of-sins/) [Thomas Aquinas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-aquinas/) > [If forgers and malefactors are put to death by the secular power, there is much more reason for excommunicating and even putting to death…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-aquinas/if-forgers-and-malefactors-are-put-to-death-by-the-secular-power/) [Thomas Aquinas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-aquinas/) > [When fear is excessive it can make many a man despair.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-aquinas/when-fear-is-excessive-it-can-make-many-a-man-despair/) [Thomas Aquinas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-aquinas/) > [Now, nothing can be brought from potentiality to actual existence except through something actually existing](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-aquinas/now-nothing-can-be-brought-from-potentiality-to-actual-existence/) [Thomas Aquinas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-aquinas/) > [To convert somebody go and take them by the hand and guide them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-aquinas/to-convert-somebody-go-and-take-them-by-the-hand-and-guide-them/) [Thomas Aquinas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-aquinas/) > [ 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… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-aquinas/by-the-divine-providence-animals-are-intended-for-man-s-use-hence-it/) [Thomas Aquinas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-aquinas/) > [“What causes love, since it is a passion, is its object; and since it is a sort of affinity or agreement with the object,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-aquinas/what-causes-love-since-it-is-a-passion-is-its-object-and-since-it-is/) [Thomas Aquinas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-aquinas/) > [The image of God always abides in the soul, whether this image be obsolete and clouded over as to amount to almost nothing; or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-aquinas/the-image-of-god-always-abides-in-the-soul-whether-this-image-be/) [Thomas Aquinas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-aquinas/) > [Charity, by which God and neighbor are loved, is the most perfect friendship.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-aquinas/charity-by-which-god-and-neighbor-are-loved-is-the-most-perfect/) [Thomas Aquinas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-aquinas/) > [Beauty adds to goodness a relation to the cognitive faculty: so that "good" means that which simply pleases the appetite; while the "beautiful" is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-aquinas/beauty-adds-to-goodness-a-relation-to-the-cognitive-faculty-so-that/) [Thomas Aquinas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-aquinas/) > [“God is not, like creatures, made up of parts. God is spirit, without bodily dimensions. Firstly, no body can cause change without itself being…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-aquinas/god-is-not-like-creatures-made-up-of-parts-god-is-spirit-without/) [Thomas Aquinas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-aquinas/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/diverse/thomas-aquinas/#itemlist", "name": "4 Diverse Quotes By Thomas Aquinas", "numberOfItems": 4, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "In questions of this sort there are two things to be observed. First, that the truth of the Scriptures be inviolably maintained. Secondly, since Scripture doth admit of diverse interpretations, that no one cling to any particular exposition with such pertinacity that, if what he supposed to be the teaching of Scripture should afterward turn out to be clearly false, he should nevertheless still presume to put it forward, lest thereby the sacred Scriptures should be exposed to the derision of unbelievers and the way of salvation should be closed to them.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Thomas Aquinas" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-aquinas/in-questions-of-this-sort-there-are-two-things-to-be-observed-first/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/83f/thomas-aquinas-837_bible_in-questions-of-this-sort-there-are-two_757010.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/83f/thomas-aquinas-837_bible_in-questions-of-this-sort-there-are-two_757010.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/83f/thomas-aquinas-837_bible_in-questions-of-this-sort-there-are-two_757010.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“In questions of this sort there are two things to be observed. First, that the truth of the Scriptures be…” — Thomas Aquinas", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Because the divine goodness could not be adequately represented by one creature alone, God produced many and diverse creatures, that what was wanting in one in the representation of the divine goodness might be supplied by another. For goodness, which in God is simple and uniform, in creatures is manifold and divided. Thus the whole universe together participates in the divine goodness more perfectly and represents it better than any single creature.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Thomas Aquinas" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-aquinas/because-the-divine-goodness-could-not-be-adequately-represented-by/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5dd/thomas-aquinas-837_creatures_because-the-divine-goodness-could-not-be_1283882.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5dd/thomas-aquinas-837_creatures_because-the-divine-goodness-could-not-be_1283882.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5dd/thomas-aquinas-837_creatures_because-the-divine-goodness-could-not-be_1283882.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Because the divine goodness could not be adequately represented by one creature alone, God produced many and…” — Thomas Aquinas", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "It is due to neither impotence nor ignorance on God’s part that evils occur in the world, but it is owing to the order of his wisdom and to the greatness of his goodness, whence come the many and divers grades of goodness in things, many of which would be lacking were he to allow no evil to exist. Thus there would be no good of patience without the evil of persecution, nor the good of the preservation of its life in a lion, without the evil of the destruction of the animals on which it lives.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Thomas Aquinas" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-aquinas/it-is-due-to-neither-impotence-nor-ignorance-on-god-s-part-that-evils/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9f1/thomas-aquinas-837_accounts_it-is-due-to-neither-impotence-nor-ignor_1541641.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9f1/thomas-aquinas-837_accounts_it-is-due-to-neither-impotence-nor-ignor_1541641.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9f1/thomas-aquinas-837_accounts_it-is-due-to-neither-impotence-nor-ignor_1541641.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“It is due to neither impotence nor ignorance on God’s part that evils occur in the world, but it is owing to…” — Thomas Aquinas", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Because of the diverse conditions of humans, it happens that some acts are virtuous to some people, as appropriate and suitable to them, while the same acts are immoral for others, as inappropriate to them.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Thomas Aquinas" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-aquinas/because-of-the-diverse-conditions-of-humans-it-happens-that-some-acts/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/801/thomas-aquinas-837_appropriate_because-of-the-diverse-conditions-of-hum_2315994.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/801/thomas-aquinas-837_appropriate_because-of-the-diverse-conditions-of-hum_2315994.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/801/thomas-aquinas-837_appropriate_because-of-the-diverse-conditions-of-hum_2315994.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Because of the diverse conditions of humans, it happens that some acts are virtuous to some people, as…” — Thomas Aquinas", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } } ] }, { "@type": "CollectionPage", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/diverse/thomas-aquinas/#webpage", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/diverse/thomas-aquinas/", "name": "Diverse Quotes by Thomas Aquinas", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website" }, "mainEntity": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/diverse/thomas-aquinas/#itemlist" }, "primaryImageOfPage": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/83f/thomas-aquinas-837_bible_in-questions-of-this-sort-there-are-two_757010.jpg" }, "description": "4 Diverse quotes by Thomas Aquinas. Plus more from Thomas Aquinas and more Diverse sayings from other authors.", "breadcrumb": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/diverse/thomas-aquinas/#breadcrumb" } }, { "@type": "BreadcrumbList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/diverse/thomas-aquinas/#breadcrumb", "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "name": "Home", "item": "https://sms4smile.com/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "name": "Quotes", "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "name": "Topics", "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/categories/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "name": "Diverse", "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/diverse/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 5, "name": "Thomas Aquinas", "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/diverse/thomas-aquinas/" } ] }, { "@type": "WebSite", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website", "name": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/", "publisher": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } }, { "@type": "Organization", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization", "name": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/", "logo": { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/themes/sq/assets/icons/icon-512.png", "width": 512, "height": 512 } } ] } ```