Thomas Aquinas Quotes

To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin.

~ Thomas Aquinas

Happiness is secured through virtue it is a good attained by man's own will.

~ Thomas Aquinas

If, then, you are looking for the way by which you should go, take Christ, because He Himself is the way.

~ Thomas Aquinas

Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.

~ Thomas Aquinas

Good can exist without evil, whereas evil cannot exist without good.

~ Thomas Aquinas

Law is nothing other than a certain ordinance of reason for the common good, promulgated by the person who has the care of the community.

~ Thomas Aquinas

It is clear that he does not pray, who, far from uplifting himself to God, requires that God shall lower Himself to him, and who resorts to prayer not to stir the man in us to will what God wills, but only to persuade God to will what the man in us wills.

~ Thomas Aquinas

That the saints may enjoy their beatitude and the grace of God more abundantly they are permitted to see the punishment of the damned in hell.

~ Thomas Aquinas

Wonder is the desire for knowledge.

~ Thomas Aquinas

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.

~ Thomas Aquinas

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.

~ Thomas Aquinas

The principal act of courage is to endure and withstand dangers doggedly rather than to attack them.

~ Thomas Aquinas

Hold firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this, and you dissolve the unity of the Church.

~ Thomas Aquinas

There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.

~ Thomas Aquinas