Aquinas Quote by Jeremy Taylor

“Thomas Aquinas was asked, “What must I do to be a saint?” and he said, “Will it.” Be a saint, and you’ll unleash the…

— Robert E. Barron

“Bonaventure was the first Superior of the Franciscan Order after the death of its founder. Thomas Aquinas once asked him where he got his…

— Richard Wurmbrand

There is little of the true philosophic spirit in Aquinas. He does not, like the Platonic Socrates, set out to follow wherever the argument…

— Bertrand Russell

“The Fear of the Lord, that is the beginning of wisdom, and therefore belongs to the beginnings, and is felt in the first cold…

— G.K. Chesterton

“There are indeed solid ontological foundations for an understanding of signals of transformation. Both Thomas Aquinas and John Calvin take the notion of God…

— James W Sire

“There is ... a contemporary trend to make a sort of 'common intellect' out of society and forbid man his own independent access to…

— Mary T. Clark

Dawkins’s problem is that he doesn’t know the difference between probabilistic empirical theorizing and strict metaphysical demonstration, and thus misreads an attempt at the…

— Edward Feser

Commentators who today talk of 'The Dark Ages' when faith instead of reason was said to ruthlessly rule, have for their animadversions only the…

— David Berlinski

“Aquinas teaches: " As God did not bind His power to the Sacraments, so as to be unable to bestow the sacramental effect without…

— Joseph Pohle

“I couldn't make any judgment on the Summa, except to say this: I read it for about twenty minutes every night before I go…

— Flannery O'Connor

“John Finnis observed that, since there is no doctrine of subjective rights in Aquinas and there is such a doctrine in Suarez, a “watershed”…

— Brian Tierney

“The attempt to understand morality in the legalistic terms of a natural law is ancient but is now mostly associated with the formulation given…

— Knud Haakonsen