--- title: "11 Saint thomas Quotes by 11 authors" description: "Browse 11 Saint thomas quotes by 11 authors. Discover the best Saint thomas sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/327/andrew-cuomo-6936_office_i-have-a-portrait-of-saint-thomas-more-i_1144984.png" --- > [I have a portrait of Saint Thomas More in my office.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-cuomo/i-have-a-portrait-of-saint-thomas-more-in-my-office/) [Andrew Cuomo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrew-cuomo/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/327/andrew-cuomo-6936_office_i-have-a-portrait-of-saint-thomas-more-i_1144984.png) > [O my God, how happy should I be to hear from Thy lips those words which Thou didst once address to Saint…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-julian-eymard/o-my-god-how-happy-should-i-be-to-hear-from-thy-lips-those-words/) [Peter Julian Eymard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-julian-eymard/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/156/peter-julian-eymard-11275_addresses_o-my-god-how-happy-should-i-be-to-hear-f_2899591.png) > [Even theologians, even the great theologians of the thirteenth century, even Saint Thomas Aquinas himself did not trust to faith alone, or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-adams/even-theologians-even-the-great-theologians-of-the-thirteenth-century/) [Henry Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-adams/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e59/henry-adams-1542_assuming_even-theologians-even-the-great-theologi_2911465.png) > [A just law is a man-made code that squares with the moral law or the law of God. An unjust law is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-luther/a-just-law-is-a-man-made-code-that-squares-with-the-moral-law-or-the-2/) [Martin Luther](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-luther/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a00/martin-luther-106_character_a-just-law-is-a-man-made-code-that-squar_3010468.jpg) > [No more cutting grams, and wrapping grands up in rubber-bands, I'm a recovered man, our plans ta discover other lands, suburban places…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eminem/no-more-cutting-grams-and-wrapping-grands-up-in-rubber-bands-i-m-a/) [Eminem](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eminem/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/65b/eminem-415_band_no-more-cutting-grams-and-wrapping-grand_541306.jpg) > [Back in Georgie's attic, he yanks the phone out of the socket and begins scrolling down the names under dialed calls, praying…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/melina-marchetta/back-in-georgie-s-attic-he-yanks-the-phone-out-of-the-socket-and/) [Melina Marchetta](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/melina-marchetta/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2e5/melina-marchetta-392_attics_back-in-georgie-s-attic-he-yanks-the-pho_1257258.jpg) > [“Oh, Buenos Aires, I have traveled around the world, but I’ve never been separated from you,” said Argentine poet Jorge Luis Borges.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alejandro-jodorowsky/oh-buenos-aires-i-have-traveled-around-the-world-but-i-ve-never-been/) [Alejandro Jodorowsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alejandro-jodorowsky/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/173/alejandro-jodorowsky-1890_around-the-world_oh-buenos-aires-i-have-traveled-around-t_440780.png) > [“Ever since Plato most philosophers have considered it part of their business to produce ‘proofs’ of immortality and the existence of God.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bertrand-russell/ever-since-plato-most-philosophers-have-considered-it-part-of-their/) [Bertrand Russell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bertrand-russell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c34/bertrand-russell-69_business_ever-since-plato-most-philosophers-have_1776815.jpg) > [“Saint Thomas Aquinas says, wisely, that the only way to drive out a bad passion is by a stronger good passion. The…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-kreeft/saint-thomas-aquinas-says-wisely-that-the-only-way-to-drive-out-a-bad/) [Peter Kreeft](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-kreeft/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/726/peter-kreeft-820_discipline_saint-thomas-aquinas-says-wisely-that-th_537121.jpg) > [“Sir Thomas More (7 February 1478 – 6 July 1535), also known as Saint Thomas More, was an English lawyer, author, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-more/sir-thomas-more-7-february-1478-6-july-1535-also-known-as-saint/) [Thomas More](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-more/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a94/thomas-more-3382_king-henry_sir-thomas-more-7-february-1478-6-july-1_635160.jpg) > [“I loved Enso Roshi’s teachings. I loved learning about life. I loved life. It was a good thing to feel. I loved…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-scott-mcleod/i-loved-enso-roshi-s-teachings-i-loved-learning-about-life-i-loved/) [T. Scott McLeod](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-scott-mcleod/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a91/t-scott-mcleod-13148_acceptance_i-loved-enso-roshi-s-teachings-i-loved-l_1695416.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/saint-thomas/#itemlist", "name": "Saint thomas Quotes", "numberOfItems": 11, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I have a portrait of Saint Thomas More in my office.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Andrew Cuomo" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-cuomo/i-have-a-portrait-of-saint-thomas-more-in-my-office/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/327/andrew-cuomo-6936_office_i-have-a-portrait-of-saint-thomas-more-i_1144984.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/327/andrew-cuomo-6936_office_i-have-a-portrait-of-saint-thomas-more-i_1144984.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/327/andrew-cuomo-6936_office_i-have-a-portrait-of-saint-thomas-more-i_1144984.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I have a portrait of Saint Thomas More in my office.” — Andrew Cuomo", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "O my God, how happy should I be to hear from Thy lips those words which Thou didst once address to Saint Thomas of Aquin: Thou hast spoken well of Me, Pierre!", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Peter Julian Eymard" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-julian-eymard/o-my-god-how-happy-should-i-be-to-hear-from-thy-lips-those-words/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/156/peter-julian-eymard-11275_addresses_o-my-god-how-happy-should-i-be-to-hear-f_2899591.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/156/peter-julian-eymard-11275_addresses_o-my-god-how-happy-should-i-be-to-hear-f_2899591.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/156/peter-julian-eymard-11275_addresses_o-my-god-how-happy-should-i-be-to-hear-f_2899591.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“O my God, how happy should I be to hear from Thy lips those words which Thou didst once address to Saint…” — Peter Julian Eymard", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Even theologians, even the great theologians of the thirteenth century, even Saint Thomas Aquinas himself did not trust to faith alone, or assume the existence of God.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Henry Adams" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-adams/even-theologians-even-the-great-theologians-of-the-thirteenth-century/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e59/henry-adams-1542_assuming_even-theologians-even-the-great-theologi_2911465.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e59/henry-adams-1542_assuming_even-theologians-even-the-great-theologi_2911465.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e59/henry-adams-1542_assuming_even-theologians-even-the-great-theologi_2911465.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Even theologians, even the great theologians of the thirteenth century, even Saint Thomas Aquinas himself…” — Henry Adams", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "A just law is a man-made code that squares with the moral law or the law of God. 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God. Baby Jesus. Saint Thomas the doubter. Saint Whoever, patron saint of losers. Praying, Please, please, don't let it be true. The first name shatters him. 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They have found fault with the proofs of their predecessors — Saint Thomas rejected Saint Anselm's proofs, and Kant rejected Descartes' — but they have supplied new ones of their own. 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The same is true of thoughts as of passions. When your mind wanders, like a child, your will must bring it back, like a mother. [. . .] The will-parent must discipline the mind-child, avoiding both the opposite extremes commonly made in disciplining either children or thoughts: tyranny or permissiveness.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Peter Kreeft" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-kreeft/saint-thomas-aquinas-says-wisely-that-the-only-way-to-drive-out-a-bad/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/726/peter-kreeft-820_discipline_saint-thomas-aquinas-says-wisely-that-th_537121.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/726/peter-kreeft-820_discipline_saint-thomas-aquinas-says-wisely-that-th_537121.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/726/peter-kreeft-820_discipline_saint-thomas-aquinas-says-wisely-that-th_537121.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Saint Thomas Aquinas says, wisely, that the only way to drive out a bad passion is by a stronger good…” — Peter Kreeft", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 10, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Sir Thomas More (7 February 1478 – 6 July 1535), also known as Saint Thomas More, was an English lawyer, author, and statesman. During his lifetime he earned a reputation as a leading humanist scholar and occupied many public offices, including that of Lord Chancellor from 1529 to 1532. More coined the word \"utopia\", a name he gave to an ideal, imaginary island nation whose political system he described in a book published in 1516. He is chiefly remembered for his principled refusal to accept King Henry VIII's claim to be supreme head of the Church of England, a decision which ended his political career and led to his execution as a traitor. In 1935, four hundred years after his death, More was canonized in the Catholic Church by Pope Pius XI, and was later declared the patron saint of lawyers and statesmen. He shares his feast day, June 22 on the Catholic calendar of saints, with Saint John Fisher, the only Bishop during the English Reformation to maintain his allegiance to the Pope. More was added to the Anglican Churches' calendar of saints in 1980. Source: Wikipedia”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Thomas More" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-more/sir-thomas-more-7-february-1478-6-july-1535-also-known-as-saint/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a94/thomas-more-3382_king-henry_sir-thomas-more-7-february-1478-6-july-1_635160.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a94/thomas-more-3382_king-henry_sir-thomas-more-7-february-1478-6-july-1_635160.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a94/thomas-more-3382_king-henry_sir-thomas-more-7-february-1478-6-july-1_635160.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Sir Thomas More (7 February 1478 – 6 July 1535), also known as Saint Thomas More, was an English lawyer…” — Thomas More", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 11, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“I loved Enso Roshi’s teachings. I loved learning about life. I loved life. It was a good thing to feel. I loved life, and I loved learning, and I was still learning. I was not, yet, done. At the end of our journeys, there would be an end to the journey. Maybe. If I was lucky. If providence shone down upon me gently. I would find love. I would find acceptance. Complete love. Complete acceptance. I would know, that the self, is an illusion. I would come to enlightenment, but that would also mean, there would be no ‘I’ there. I would realize that the ‘I’ was an illusion, all along, just like some great dream. This is what the wise sages say, the great teachings, the mystical teachings, not only from the East, but also from the West. The Gospel of Saint Thomas. Thomas Merton. Thomas, like I was Thomas, and also doubting, the main reasons I’d chosen the name. If nothing else, it was lovable, just as it is. My life. Even the parts I didn’t love, could I love them? The struggles. It was all part of the journey, and would I not look back fondly on this, at some time? Look at how arduous and sincere I’d been. Look at how worried I’d been. Look at how insecure I’d been. Look at how I’d struggled. Trying to find my way. Would I not look back upon myself, affectionately and fondly and with love?”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "T. 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