Quotes from St. Thomas Aquinas

The Stone is one, the Medicine is one, to which we add nothing, only in the preparation removing superfluities.

If you want to be saved look the face of your Christ.

A person is said to be patient…because he acts in a praiseworthy manner by enduring things which hurt him here and now and is not unduly saddened by them.

If you want to be saved look at the face of your Christ.

deliberation we may hesitate; but a deliberated act must be performed swiftly

God, make my body healthy and agile, my mind sharp and clear, my heart joyful and contented, my soul faithful and loving.

Therefore our natural desire for knowledge cannot come to rest within us until we know the first cause, and that not in any way, but in its very essence. The first cause is God. Consequently the ultimate end of an intellectual creature is the vision of God in His essence" (The Divine Trinity, Chapter 104).

Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.

The truth of the Christian faith surpasses the capacity of reason.

He that obstinately denieth the truth before men upon earth, wilfully refuseth his soul's health in heaven.

The human mind may perceive truth only through thinking, as is clear from Augustine.

Better to illuminate than merely to shine to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate.