Quotes from St. Thomas Aquinas

Sin is a spiritual illness; thus sinners are in need of salvation.

The principal act of courage is to endure and withstand dangers doggedly rather than to attack them.

The perfection of the effect demonstrates the perfection of the cause, for a greater power brings about a more perfect effect. But God is the most perfect agent. Therefore, things created by Him obtain perfection from Him. So, to detract from the perfection of creatures is to detract from the perfection of divine power.

We can't have full knowledge all at once. We must start by believing then afterwards we may be led on to master the evidence for ourselves.

Pray thee, spare, thyself at times: for it becomes a wise man sometimes to relax the high pressure of his attention to work.

How can we live in harmony? First we need to know we are all madly in love with the same God.

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.

Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand.

Whatever is received is received according to the nature of the recipient.

It is possible to demonstrate God's existence, although not a priori, yet a posteriori from some work of His more surely known to us.

If, then, you are looking for the way by which you should go, take Christ, because He Himself is the way.

Hold firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this, and you dissolve the unity of the Church.