Quotes from St. Thomas Aquinas
To live well is to work well, to show a good activity.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
If you can live amid injustice without anger, you are immoral as well as unjust.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
The servants of God...whether provoked by word or work, by keeping themselves tranquil and peaceful, evince a perfect nobleness of soul.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
Mistakes are made on two counts: an argument is either based on error or incorrectly developed.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
Now this relaxation of the mind from work consists on playful words or deeds. Therefore it becomes a wise and virtuous man to have recourse to such things at times.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
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.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
The splendor of a soul in grace is so seductive that it surpasses the beauty of all created things.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
Beauty adds to goodness a relation to the cognitive faculty: so that "good" means that which simply pleases the appetite; while the "beautiful" is something pleasant to apprehend.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
The celebration of Holy Mass is as valuable as the death of Jesus on the cross.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.
- St. Thomas Aquinas