Quotes from St. Thomas Aquinas
It would seem that zeal is not an effect of love. For zeal is a beginning of contention.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
For loving draws us more to things than knowing does, since good is found by going to the thing, whereas the true is found when the thing comes to us.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
An angel can illuminate the thought and mind of man by strengthening the power of vision.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
All things, by desiring their own perfection, desire God Himself.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
Beware the man of a single book.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
The Study of philosophy is not that we may know what men have thought, but what the truth of things is.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
The soul is like an uninhabited world that comes to life only when God lays His head against us.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
For those with faith, no evidence is necessary; for those without it, no evidence will suffice.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
The study of truth requires a considerable effort - which is why few are willing to undertake it out of love of knowledge - despite the fact that God has implanted a natural appetite for such knowledge in the minds of men.
- St. Thomas Aquinas