See to whom Jesus is drawing near, three kinds of people: to those who make peace with him, to those who are… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Wonder was the motive that led people to philosophy ... wonder is a kind of desire in knowledge. It is the cause… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
It is necessary to posit something which is necessary of itself, and has no cause of its necessity outside of itself but… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Because of the diverse conditions of humans, it happens that some acts are virtuous to some people, as appropriate and suitable to… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
The human race was in need of salvation because of the perversity of sin. For when people who are ill are cured… — 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
One faith, St. Paul writes (Eph. 4:5). Hold most firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this,… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Without the suitable conditions life could not exist. But both life and its conditions set forth the operations of inscrutable Power. We… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
He (Mohammed) seduced the people by promises of carnal pleasure to which the concupiscence of the flesh urges us. His teaching also… — 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