Quotes from St. Thomas Aquinas
Because we cannot know what God is, but only what He is not, we cannot consider how He is but only how He is not.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
God destines us for an end beyond the grasp of reason.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
God's precepts are light to the loving, heavy to the fearful.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
We are like children, who stand in need of masters to enlighten us and direct us; God has provided for this, by appointing his angels to be our teachers and guides.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
Whenever God wakes in us, our thinking becomes clear - nothing is missing.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
It is a sin to regard the fact that God cannot do the impossible as a limitation on his powers.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
Reason in man is rather like God in the world.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
Every cell in us worships God.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
Concerning perfect blessedness which consists in a vision of God.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
If forgers and malefactors are put to death by the secular power, there is much more reason for excommunicating and even putting to death one convicted of heresy.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
The knowledge of God is the cause of things. For the knowledge of God is to all creatures what the knowledge of the artificer is to things made by his art.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
See to whom Jesus is drawing near, three kinds of people: to those who make peace with him, to those who are devoted to God, and to those who are kind to their neighbors.
- St. Thomas Aquinas