Natural law Quote by 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 to which…

— 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 to death…

— 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, either by…

— Thomas Aquinas

“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

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