Quotes from St. Thomas Aquinas
God answered the prayers of animals.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
Grant me, O Lord my God, a mind to know you, a heart to seek you, wisdom to find you, conduct pleasing to you, faithful perseverance in waiting for you, and a hope of finally embracing you. Amen.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
The soul is perfected by knowledge and virtue.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
Arrive at knowledge over small streamlets, and do not plunge immediately into the ocean, since progress must go from the easier to the more difficult.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
A scrap of knowledge about sublime things is worth more than any amount about trivialities.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
The soul is like an uninhabited world that comes to life only when God lays His head against us.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
I answer that, Even, as in the blessed in heaven there will be most perfect charity, so in the damned there will be the most perfect hate.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
Whatever is received is received according to the nature of the recipient.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
Clearly the person who accepts the Church as an infallible guide will believe whatever the Church teaches.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
Because of the diverse conditions of humans, it happens that some acts are virtuous to some people, as appropriate and suitable to them, while the same acts are immoral for others, as inappropriate to them.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.
- 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