Quotes from St. Thomas Aquinas
Love follows knowledge.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
There must be must be a first mover existing above all — and this we call God.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
Faith has to do with things that are not seen, and hope with things that are not in hand.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
It is necessary for the perfection of human society that there should be men who devote their lives to contemplation.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
Mercy without justice is the mother of dissolution; justice without mercy is cruelty.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
Obedience unites us so closely to God that it in a way transforms us into Him, so that we have no other will but His. If obedience is lacking, even prayer cannot be pleasing to God.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
A song is the exultation of the mind dwelling on eternal things, bursting forth in the voice.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
It is not theft, properly speaking, to take secretly and use another's property in a case of extreme need: because that which he takes for the support of his life becomes his own property by reason of that need
- St. Thomas Aquinas
While injustice is the worst of sins, despair is the most dangerous; because when you are in despair you care neither about yourself nor about others.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
Man has free choice, or otherwise counsels, exhortations, commands, prohibitions, rewards and punishments would be in vain.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
The human mind may perceive truth only through thinking, as is clear from Augustine.
- St. Thomas Aquinas