Quotes from St. Thomas Aquinas
Beware of the person of one book.
- St. 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 killing or in any other way whatsoever.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
If a man deliberately abstains from wine to such an extent that he does serious harm to his nature, he will not be free from blame.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
Baptism is the Sacrament of Faith. Now, dead faith does not suffice for salvation .. .Therefore, the Sacrament of Baptism cannot give salvation to a man whose will ... expels the form of faith.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
All men are equal in nature, and also in original sin. It is in the merits and demerits of their actions that they differ.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
Sloth is sluggishness of the mind which neglects to begin good...it is evil in its effect, if it so oppresses man as to draw him away entirely from good deeds.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
It is a sin directly against one's neighbour, since one man cannot over-abound in external riches, without another man lacking them.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
Whatever a man has in superabundance is owed, of natural right, to the poor for their sustenance.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
Mercy without justice is the mother of dissolution; justice without mercy is cruelty.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
Charity is the form, mover, mother and root of all the virtues.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
If a thing can be done adequately by means of one, it is superfluous to do it by means of several; for we observe that nature does not employ two instruments [if] one suffices.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
The only-begotten Son of God, wanting to make us sharers in His divinity, assumed our nature, so that He, made man, might make men gods.
- St. Thomas Aquinas