Thomas Aquinas Quotes (66 Quotes)

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

There is but one Church in which men find salvation, just as outside the ark of Noah it was not possible for anyone to be saved.

Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice.

To convert somebody go and take them by the hand and guide them.

How is it they live in such harmony the billions of stars - when most men can barely go a minute without declaring war in their minds about someone they know.

Distinctions drawn by the mind are not necessarily equivalent to distinctions in reality.

Whatever is received is received according to the nature of the recipient.

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.

Man should not consider his material possession his own, but as common to all, so as to share them without hesitation when others are in need.

Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do.

We can't have full knowledge all at once. We must start by believing; then afterwards we may be led on to master the evidence for ourselves.

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.

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.

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.

Most men seem to live according to sense rather than reason.

How can we live in harmony? First we need to know we are all madly in love with the same God.