St. Aquinas Quotes (9 Quotes)

Since the Jews are the slaves of the Church, she can dispose of their possessions

We are like children, who stand in need of masters to enlighten us and direct us and God has provided for this, by appointing his angels to be our teachers and guides.

Peace is the work of justice indirectly, in so far as justice removes the obstacles to peace but it is the work of charity (love) directly, since charity, according to its very notion, causes peace.

For loving draws us more to things than knowing does, since good is found by going to the thing, whereas the true is found when the thing comes to us

Wherefore if forgers of money and other evil-doers are forthwith condemned to death by the secular authority, much more reason is there for heretics, as soon as they are convicted of heresy, to be not only excommunicated but even put to death.

Far graver is it to corrupt the faith that is the life of the soul than to counterfeit the money that sustains temporal life.

But man is freer than all the animals, on account of his free-will, with which he is endowed above all other animals.

Lord, in my zeal for the love of truth, let me not forget the truth about love.

And therefore the Philosopher Aristotle says in Metaphysics VI that good and evil, which are objects of the will, are in things, but truth and error, which are objects of the intellect, are in the mind.