We set forth our petitions before God, not in order to make known to Him our needs and desires, but rather so… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Evil denotes the lack of good. Not every absence of good is an evil, for absence may be taken either in a… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
The human mind may perceive truth only through thinking, as is clear from Augustine. — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
It may well happen that what is in itself the more certain on account of the weakness of our intelligence, which is… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
That the saints may enjoy their beatitude and the grace of God more abundantly they are permitted to see the punishment of… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Thus Angels' Bread is made The Bread of man today: The Living Bread from Heaven With figures doth away: O wondrous gift… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
We can't have full knowledge all at once. We must start by believing; then afterwards we may be led on to master… — 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 apostles and their successors are God's vicars in governing the Church which is built on faith and the sacraments of faith.… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Bestow upon me, O Lord my God, understanding to know thee, diligence to seek thee, wisdom to find thee, and a faithfulness… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
The fact that the evil ones, as long as they live, can be corrected from their errors does not prohibit that they… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Every truth without exception- and whoever may utter it- is from the Holy Spirit. — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
For in order that man may do well, whether in the works of the active life, or in those of the contemplative… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
In the life of the body a man is sometimes sick, and unless he takes medicine, he will die. Even so in… — 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