I cannot go on.... All that I have written seems to me like so much straw compared to what I have seen… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
True peace consists in not separating ourselves from the will of God. — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
For loving draws us more to things than knowing does, since good is found by going to the thing, whereas the true… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
It would seem that zeal is not an effect of love. For zeal is a beginning of contention. — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
An act of love always tends towards two things; to the good that one wills, and to the person for whom one… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Love works in a circle, for the beloved moves the lover by stamping a likeness, and the lover then goes out to… — Thomas Aquinas 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
O how unspeakable is this Sacrament which sets our affections ablaze with charity. ... It is the fulfillment of Christ's Mystical Body. — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
“The emotion of love is an affective emotion, directly reacting to goodness, rather than an aggressive one, reacting to challenge. Not only… — 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