Quotes from St. Thomas Aquinas
Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
Love is a binding force, by which another is joined to me and cherished by myself.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
The things we love tell us who we are.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
God is never angry for His sake, only for ours.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
In the realm of evil thoughts none induces to sin as much as do thoughts that concern the pleasure of the flesh.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
We should love others truly, for their own sakes rather than our own.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
Charity is love; not all love is charity.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
Love follows knowledge.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
Love works in a circle, for the beloved moves the lover by stamping a likeness, and the lover then goes out to hold the beloved inreality. Who first was the beginning now becomes the end of motion.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
The greatest kindness one can render to any man consists in leading him from error to truth.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
Believing is an act of the intellect assenting to the divine truth by command of the will moved by God through grace.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
Love must precede hatred, and nothing is hated save through being contrary to a suitable thing which is loved. And hence it is that every hatred is caused by love.
- St. Thomas Aquinas