Charity, by which God and neighbor are loved, is the most perfect friendship. — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
There would not be a perfect likeness of God in the universe if all things were of one grade of being. — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
There is, therefore, a more perfect intellectual life in the angels. In them the intellect does not proceed to self-knowledge from anything… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Even as in heaven there will be most perfect charity, so in hell there will be the most perfect hate. — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Natural inclinations are present in things from God, who moves all things. So it is impossible for the natural inclinations of a… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
The Blessed Eucharist is the perfect Sacrament of the Lord's Passion, since It contains Christ Himself and his Passion. — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Even as in the blessed in heaven there will be most perfect charity, so in the damned there will be the most… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Of all the pursuits open to men, the search for wisdom is most perfect, more sublime, more profitable, and more full of… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active power of the male seed tends to the production… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
The servants of God...whether provoked by word or work, by keeping themselves tranquil and peaceful, evince a perfect nobleness of soul. — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
The perfection of the effect demonstrates the perfection of the cause, for a greater power brings about a more perfect effect. But… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
I answer that, Even, as in the blessed in heaven there will be most perfect charity, so in the damned there will… — 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