Now, nothing can be brought from potentiality to actual existence except through something actually existing — 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… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
The Eucharist is the Sacrament of Love; It signifies Love, It produces love. The Eucharist is the consummation of the whole spiritual… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Love is a binding force, by which another is joined to me and cherished by myself. — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
We ought to cherish the body. Our body's substance is not from an evil principle, as the Manicheans imagine, but from God.… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Pain itself can be pleasurable accidentally in so far as it is accompanied by wonder, as in stage-plays; or in so far… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Eternity is called whole, not because it has parts, but because it is lacking in nothing. — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
How can we live in harmony? First we need to know we are all madly in love with the same God. — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Love must precede hatred, and nothing is hated save through being contrary to a suitable thing which is loved. And hence it… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
I receive Thee ransom of my soul. For love of Thee have I studied and kept vigil toiled preached and taught… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
One aspect of neighbourly love is that we must not merely will our neighbours good, but actually work to bring it about. — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Give us, O Lord, a steadfast heart, which no unworthy affection may drag downwards; give us an unconquered heart, which no tribulation… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
The Sacrament of the Body of the Lord puts the demons to flight, defends us against the incentives to vice and to… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
We should love others truly, for their own sakes rather than our own. — 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