Thomas Aquinas

Grace does not destroy nature, it perfects it.

— Thomas Aquinas

Justice is in subjects as well as in rulers.

— Thomas Aquinas

“A capacity as such is directed to an act. Wherefore we seek to know the nature of a capacity from the act…

— Thomas Aquinas

“Yet no-one can say that God has not a Word, for it would follow that God is most foolish.”

— Thomas Aquinas

Unbelief is the greatest of sins.

— Thomas Aquinas

If forgers and malefactors are put to death by the secular power, there is much more reason for excommunicating and even putting…

— Thomas Aquinas

When fear is excessive it can make many a man despair.

— Thomas Aquinas

Now, nothing can be brought from potentiality to actual existence except through something actually existing

— Thomas Aquinas

To convert somebody go and take them by the hand and guide them.

— Thomas Aquinas

By the divine providence [animals] are intended for man's use... Hence it is not wrong for man to make use of them,…

— Thomas Aquinas

“What causes love, since it is a passion, is its object; and since it is a sort of affinity or agreement with…

— Thomas Aquinas

The image of God always abides in the soul, whether this image be obsolete and clouded over as to amount to almost…

— Thomas Aquinas

Charity, by which God and neighbor are loved, is the most perfect friendship.

— Thomas Aquinas

Beauty adds to goodness a relation to the cognitive faculty: so that "good" means that which simply pleases the appetite; while the…

— Thomas Aquinas

“God is not, like creatures, made up of parts. God is spirit, without bodily dimensions. Firstly, no body can cause change without…

— Thomas Aquinas

A thing is lovable according as it is good. But God is infinite good. Therefore He is infinitely lovable.

— Thomas Aquinas

It is necessary for the perfection of human society that there should be men who devote their lives to contemplation.

— Thomas Aquinas

Miracles are signs not to them that believe, but to them that believe not.

— Thomas Aquinas

If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.

— Thomas Aquinas

In a false person, sacraments do not produce any effect.

— Thomas Aquinas

The world of pure spirits stretches between the divine nature and the world of human beings; because divine wisdom has ordained that…

— Thomas Aquinas

Humility is the mark of a genuine disciple.

— Thomas Aquinas

He suddenly announced that he could not write any more since "All that I have written seems like straw to me."

— Thomas Aquinas

How is it they live in such harmony the billions of stars - when most men can barely go a minute without…

— Thomas Aquinas

If the motion of the earth were circular, it would be violent and contrary to nature, and could not be eternal, since…

— Thomas Aquinas