Quotes from St. Thomas Aquinas
There is but one Church in which men find salvation, just as outside the ark of Noah it was not possible for anyone to be saved.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
It is only God who creates. Man merely rearranges.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
For in order that man may do well, whether in the works of the active life, or in those of the contemplative life, he needs the fellowship of friends.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
No man truly has joy unless he lives in love.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
The highest perfection of human life consists in the mind of man being detached from care, for the sake of God.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
Pray thee, spare, thyself at times: for it becomes a wise man sometimes to relax the high pressure of his attention to work.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
The proper effect of the Eucharist is the transformation of man into God.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
Man should not consider his material possession his own, but as common to all, so as to share them without hesitation when others are in need.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
The happy man in this life needs friends.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
A man does not always choose what his guardian angel intends.
- St. Thomas Aquinas