Quotes about Thomas Aquinas

Being born he have himself as our Companion, Eating with us he gave himself as Food, Dying He became our Ransom, Reigning he gives himself as our Reward

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.

The splendor of a soul in grace is so seductive that it surpasses the beauty of all created things.

Charity is not a potency of the soul, because if it were it would be natural. Nor is it a passion, because it is not in a sensitive potency in which are all passions. Nor is it a habit, because a habit is removed with difficulty; charity, however, is easily lost through one act of mortal sin. Therefore charity is not something created in the soul.

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.

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.

The human mind may perceive truth only through thinking, as is clear from Augustine.

Since faith rests upon infallible truth, and since the contrary of a truth can never be demonstrated, it is clear that the arguments brought against faith cannot be demonstrations, but are difficulties that can be answered.

It must be said that charity can, in no way, exist along with mortal sin.

The splendor of a soul in grace is so seductive that it surpasses the beauty of all created things.

If, however, we understand by the firmament that part of the air in which the clouds are collected, then the waters above the firmament must rather be the vapors resolved from the waters which are raised above a part of the atmosphere, and from which the rain falls.

But to say, as some writers alluded to by Augustine (Gen. ad lit. ii, 4), that waters resolved into vapor may be lifted above the starry heaven, is a mere absurdity.