“Frederick agreed that the punishment of La Barre was extreme; for his part he would rather have condemned the youth to read… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“The most blessed result of prayer would be to rise thinking "But I never knew before. I never dreamed…" I suppose it… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“The 'words' of Augustine, Origen, Clement of Alexandria, St. John of Damascus, St. Thomas Aquinas, et al, may not have carried the… — R. Alan Woods Copy Share Image
I know that Colbert could quote Thomas Aquinas and all this, but I'm somebody who, because it's a necessity for me on… — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
“University of Chicago is a Baptist school, where atheist professors teach Jewish students about St. Thomas Aquinas.” — Martin Gardner Copy Share Image
The whole thing that Dante [Alighieri] did was summed up in the medieval world. It's like St. Thomas Aquinas, the Summa Theologica.… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
“There are indeed solid ontological foundations for an understanding of signals of transformation. Both Thomas Aquinas and John Calvin take the notion… — James W Sire Copy Share Image
Many statements about God are confidently made by theologians on grounds that today at least sound specious. Thomas Aquinas claimed to prove… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The first-cause and prime-mover argument, brilliantly proffered by St. Thomas Aquinas in the fourteenth century (and brilliantly refuted by David Hume in… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
“As St. Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) taught, whatever we say about God is more unlike God than saying nothing. If we do say… — Thomas Keating Copy Share Image
“Saint Thomas Aquinas says, wisely, that the only way to drive out a bad passion is by a stronger good passion. The… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
“The attempt to understand morality in the legalistic terms of a natural law is ancient but is now mostly associated with the… — Knud Haakonsen Copy Share Image
“Bonaventure was the first Superior of the Franciscan Order after the death of its founder. Thomas Aquinas once asked him where he… — Richard Wurmbrand Copy Share Image
“In the history of philosophy, the term “rationalism” has two distinct meanings. In one sense, it signifies an unbreached commitment to reasoned… — Andrew Bernstein Copy Share Image
Even theologians, even the great theologians of the thirteenth century, even Saint Thomas Aquinas himself did not trust to faith alone, or… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
Discrimination against Jews can be read in Thomas Aquinas, and insults against Jews in Martin Luther. — Lionel Blue Copy Share Image
“It's like Thomas Aquinas told Charlemagne in an overpriced bistro in Nice: "You never realize how much shit you have until you… — Mark Driver Copy Share Image
“Thomas Aquinas was asked, “What must I do to be a saint?” and he said, “Will it.” Be a saint, and you’ll… — Robert E. Barron Copy Share Image
It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
To put it in the terms of St. Thomas Aquinas: An unjust law is a human law that is not rooted in… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“Thomas Aquinas said that people are fundamentally good and seek the goodness that is God. It goes wrong when we allow ourselves… — Lucette Verboven Copy Share Image
Thomas Aquinas states parenthetically, as something entirely obvious, that men are more rational than women. For my part, I see no evidence… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Professors of Greek forget or are unaware that Thomas Aquinas, who did not know Greek, was a better interpreter of Aristotle than… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
“St. Thomas Aquinas understood virtues to be habitual or abiding dispositions that help us to realize the good in our decisions and… — Mark O'Keefe Copy Share Image
“Facts in our day are not the same as the facts in the time of Aristotle or Thomas Aquinas. But the principles… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Thomas Aquinas defined the human soul as the core of our being, and the power that brings our characteristics into unity so… — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
Even when I feared and detested Christianity, I was struck by its essential unity, which, in spite of its divisions, it has… — C. S. Lewis 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
“It was the outstanding fact about St. Thomas [Aquinas] that he loved books and lived on books ... When asked for what… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Previously, Incledon was the head strength and conditioning specialist at Cypress Bay School and St. Thomas Aquinas School in Fort Lauderdale, Florida… — Lori Incledon Copy Share Image
Searching for a better description of this rotting sadness, I came upon the concept of acedia. In Christian theology, it’s an antecedent… — Mishka Copy Share Image
The idea that the universe itself is physically structured around hierarchy was sort of an integration of earlier science and theology that… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
The Theatre of the Absurd has renounced arguing about the absurdity of the human condition; it merely presents it in being -… — Martin Esslin Copy Share Image
When the Reformation became established, one of the things that was a question between Catholicism and the Reformation traditions was whether there… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“What was the secret that the serpent told Eve? That she could eat a certain fruit? Pah. That was a euphemism. The… — Matt Ridley Copy Share Image
“In a lovely book called On Hope, Josef Pieper explores Thomas Aquinas' theology of hope along these lines: the hopeful person is… — Alan Jacobs Copy Share Image
“8) The fourth period in the history of indul gences, from the Council of Clermont (1095) to the Second Council of Lyons… — Joseph Pohle Copy Share Image
“The three greatest metaphysicians who ever existed - Plato, Aristotle and St.Thomas Aquinas - had no system in the idealistic sense of… — Étienne Gilson Copy Share Image
“In belief in what? In love with what? In hope for what?—There’s no doubt that these weak people—at some time or another… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Mary’s Fingerprints The most significant era where her fingerprints have been left is medieval Europe. The word medieval today has many negative… — Carrie Gress Copy Share Image
![“The 'words' of Augustine, Origen, Clement of Alexandria, St. John of Damascus, St. Thomas Aquinas, et al, may not have carried the weight of Canon, however they were neither paper-like nor mere 'pellets'." ~R. Alan Woods [2012]” quote by R. Alan Woods](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/461/r-alan-woods-1455_canon_the-words-of-augustine-origen-clement-of_1178430.jpg)
![“The whole thing that Dante [Alighieri] did was summed up in the medieval world. It's like St. Thomas Aquinas, the Summa Theologica. He didn't invent it, he just put it all in one package. You get twelve fat books there sitting in any library. Whereas... I think if Joshi thinks [H.P.] Lovecraft was…” quote by Paul Laffoley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/a35/paul-laffoley-7077_book_the-whole-thing-that-dante-alighieri-did_82075.jpg)
![“Saint Thomas Aquinas says, wisely, that the only way to drive out a bad passion is by a stronger good passion. 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…” quote by Peter Kreeft](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/726/peter-kreeft-820_discipline_saint-thomas-aquinas-says-wisely-that-th_537121.jpg)
![“It was the outstanding fact about St. Thomas [Aquinas] that he loved books and lived on books ... When asked for what he thanked God most, he answered simply, ‘I have understood every page I ever read’.” quote by G.K. Chesterton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/dac/g-k-chesterton-224_books_it-was-the-outstanding-fact-about-st-tho_2751632.jpg)
