Quotes by Thomas Aquinas

God loves his creatures, and he loves each one the more, the more it shares his own goodness, which is the first and primary object of his love. Therefore he wants the desires of his rational creatures to be fulfilled because they share most perfectly of all creatures the goodness of god.And his will is an accomplisher of things because he is the cause of things by his will. So it belongs to the divine goodness to fulfill the desires of rational creatures which are put to him in prayer.

Friendship makes you feel as one with your friend.

God is never angry for His sake, only for ours.

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

Beware the man of a single book.

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.

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

A man has free choice to the extent that he is rational.

A man has free choice to the extent that he is rational

Nothing which implies contradiction falls under the omnipotence of God.

The study of truth requires a considerable effort - which is why few are willing to undertake it out of love of knowledge - despite the fact that God has implanted a natural appetite for such knowledge in the minds of men.

If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.

If you are looking for the way by which you should go, take Christ, because he himself is the way.

If you want to be saved look at the face of your Christ.

If you want to be saved look the face of your Christ.

It is not theft, properly speaking, to take secretly and use anothers property in a case of extreme need: because that which he takes for the support of his life becomes his own property by reason of that need

Angels need an assumed body, not for themselves, but on our account.

Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand.

The things that we love tell us what we are.

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.