--- title: "24 Ifs Quotes By Thomas Aquinas" description: "24 Ifs quotes by Thomas Aquinas. Plus more from Thomas Aquinas and more Ifs sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0db/thomas-aquinas-837_benefits_god-himself-would-not-permit-evil-in-thi_1815078.jpg" --- > [God himself would not permit evil in this world if good did not come of it for the benefit and harmony of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-aquinas/god-himself-would-not-permit-evil-in-this-world-if-good-did-not-come/) [Thomas Aquinas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-aquinas/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0db/thomas-aquinas-837_benefits_god-himself-would-not-permit-evil-in-thi_1815078.jpg) > [Sloth is sluggishness of the mind which neglects to begin good...it is evil in its effect, if it so oppresses man as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-aquinas/sloth-is-sluggishness-of-the-mind-which-neglects-to-begin-good-it-is/) [Thomas Aquinas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-aquinas/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/56e/thomas-aquinas-837_deeds_sloth-is-sluggishness-of-the-mind-which_2745586.jpg) > [If you can live amid injustice without anger, you are immoral as well as unjust.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-aquinas/if-you-can-live-amid-injustice-without-anger-you-are-immoral-as-well/) [Thomas Aquinas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-aquinas/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b58/thomas-aquinas-837_anger_if-you-can-live-amid-injustice-without-a_1642507.jpg) > [It is not possible to be ignorant of the end of things if we know their beginning.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-aquinas/it-is-not-possible-to-be-ignorant-of-the-end-of-things-if-we-know/) [Thomas Aquinas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-aquinas/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/554/thomas-aquinas-837_ends_it-is-not-possible-to-be-ignorant-of-the_2341899.jpg) > [If a man deliberately abstains from wine to such an extent that he does serious harm to his nature, he will not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-aquinas/if-a-man-deliberately-abstains-from-wine-to-such-an-extent-that-he/) [Thomas Aquinas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-aquinas/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/05f/thomas-aquinas-837_blame_if-a-man-deliberately-abstains-from-wine_2470671.jpg) > [If a thing can be done adequately by means of one, it is superfluous to do it by means of several; for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-aquinas/if-a-thing-can-be-done-adequately-by-means-of-one-it-is-superfluous/) [Thomas Aquinas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-aquinas/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1af/thomas-aquinas-837_doe_if-a-thing-can-be-done-adequately-by-mea_1269727.jpg) > [If all the sins of the flesh are worthy of condemnation because by them man allows himself to be dominated by that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-aquinas/if-all-the-sins-of-the-flesh-are-worthy-of-condemnation-because-by/) [Thomas Aquinas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-aquinas/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e0a/thomas-aquinas-837_animal_if-all-the-sins-of-the-flesh-are-worthy_2005504.jpg) > [It seems that God does not exist; because if one of two contraries be infinite, the other would be altogether destroyed. But…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-aquinas/it-seems-that-god-does-not-exist-because-if-one-of-two-contraries-be/) [Thomas Aquinas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-aquinas/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cc8/thomas-aquinas-837_contrary_it-seems-that-god-does-not-exist-because_2205093.jpg) > [If someone knows from experience that daily Communion increases fervor without lessening reverence, then let him go every day. But if someone…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-aquinas/if-someone-knows-from-experience-that-daily-communion-increases/) [Thomas Aquinas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-aquinas/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/12b/thomas-aquinas-837_christian_if-someone-knows-from-experience-that-da_2281957.jpg) > [If the motion of the earth were circular, it would be violent and contrary to nature, and could not be eternal, since…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-aquinas/if-the-motion-of-the-earth-were-circular-it-would-be-violent-and/) [Thomas Aquinas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-aquinas/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2b8/thomas-aquinas-837_circular-motion_if-the-motion-of-the-earth-were-circular_242255.jpg) > [If anyone without the right faith receives Baptism outside the Church, he does not receive it unto salvation ... From the comparison…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-aquinas/if-anyone-without-the-right-faith-receives-baptism-outside-the-church/) [Thomas Aquinas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-aquinas/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b26/thomas-aquinas-837_baptism_if-anyone-without-the-right-faith-receiv_3122996.jpg) > [He who is not angry when there is just cause for anger is immoral. Why? Because anger looks to the good of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-aquinas/he-who-is-not-angry-when-there-is-just-cause-for-anger-is-immoral-why/) [Thomas Aquinas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-aquinas/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6a0/thomas-aquinas-837_anger_he-who-is-not-angry-when-there-is-just-c_1981074.jpg) > [They also have at that critical point of death the opportunity to be converted to God through repentance. And if they are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-aquinas/they-also-have-at-that-critical-point-of-death-the-opportunity-to-be/) [Thomas Aquinas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-aquinas/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4d4/thomas-aquinas-837_critical_they-also-have-at-that-critical-point-of_850301.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) > [If you seek patience, you will find no better example than the cross. Great patience occurs in two ways: either when one…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-aquinas/if-you-seek-patience-you-will-find-no-better-example-than-the-cross/) [Thomas Aquinas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-aquinas/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6c4/thomas-aquinas-837_able_if-you-seek-patience-you-will-find-no-be_2106767.jpg) > [Without the suitable conditions life could not exist. But both life and its conditions set forth the operations of inscrutable Power. We…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-aquinas/without-the-suitable-conditions-life-could-not-exist-but-both-life/) [Thomas Aquinas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-aquinas/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b7d/thomas-aquinas-837_carrie_without-the-suitable-conditions-life-cou_974341.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) > [Charity is not a potency of the soul, because if it were it would be natural. Nor is it a passion, because…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-aquinas/charity-is-not-a-potency-of-the-soul-because-if-it-were-it-would-be/) [Thomas Aquinas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-aquinas/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0d1/thomas-aquinas-837_charity_charity-is-not-a-potency-of-the-soul-bec_398979.jpg) > [Whatever is in motion must be put in motion by another. If that by which it is put in motion be itself…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-aquinas/whatever-is-in-motion-must-be-put-in-motion-by-another-if-that-by/) [Thomas Aquinas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-aquinas/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/350/thomas-aquinas-837_firsts_whatever-is-in-motion-must-be-put-in-mot_1214484.jpg) > [It must be understood that prime matter, and form as well, is neither generated nor corrupted, because every generation is from something…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-aquinas/it-must-be-understood-that-prime-matter-and-form-as-well-is-neither/) [Thomas Aquinas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-aquinas/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6a4/thomas-aquinas-837_composites_it-must-be-understood-that-prime-matter_1981692.jpg) > [Behold our refutation of the error. It is not based on documents of faith, but on the reasons and statements of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-aquinas/behold-our-refutation-of-the-error-it-is-not-based-on-documents-of/) [Thomas Aquinas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-aquinas/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/34d/thomas-aquinas-837_challenges_behold-our-refutation-of-the-error-it-is_1425882.jpg) > [Baptism is not to be conferred on a man who is unwilling to give up his other sins, so neither should Baptism…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-aquinas/baptism-is-not-to-be-conferred-on-a-man-who-is-unwilling-to-give-up/) [Thomas Aquinas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-aquinas/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ee5/thomas-aquinas-837_baptism_baptism-is-not-to-be-conferred-on-a-man_2399913.jpg) > [If there were some solitary or feral man, the passions of the soul would be sufficient for him; by them he would…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-aquinas/if-there-were-some-solitary-or-feral-man-the-passions-of-the-soul/) [Thomas Aquinas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-aquinas/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1b3/thomas-aquinas-837_communication_if-there-were-some-solitary-or-feral-man_2617266.jpg) > [Sacred Scripture, since it has no science above itself, can dispute with one who denies its principles only if the opponent admits…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-aquinas/sacred-scripture-since-it-has-no-science-above-itself-can-dispute/) [Thomas Aquinas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-aquinas/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b55/thomas-aquinas-837_arguing_sacred-scripture-since-it-has-no-science_2013534.jpg) ## Other authors on Ifs ## 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/ifs/thomas-aquinas/#itemlist", "name": "24 Ifs Quotes By Thomas Aquinas", "numberOfItems": 24, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "God himself would not permit evil in this world if good did not come of it for the benefit and harmony of the universe.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Thomas Aquinas" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-aquinas/god-himself-would-not-permit-evil-in-this-world-if-good-did-not-come/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": 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