Quotes of St. Thomas Aquinas - somelinesforyou

“ The soul is like an uninhabited world that comes to life only when God lays His head against us. ”

- St. Thomas Aquinas

“ The Study of philosophy is not that we may know what men have thought, but what the truth of things is. ”

- St. Thomas Aquinas

“ The soul is like an uninhabited world that comes to life only when God lays His head against us. ”

- St. Thomas Aquinas

“ To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible. ”

- St. Thomas Aquinas

“ The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false. ”

- St. Thomas Aquinas

“ The light of faith makes us see what we believe. ”

- St. Thomas Aquinas

“ The soul is like an uninhabited world that comes to life only when God lays His head against us. ”

- St. Thomas Aquinas

“ The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false. ”

- St. 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. ”

- St. Thomas Aquinas

“ By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments. ”

- St. Thomas Aquinas

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

- St. Thomas Aquinas

“ Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation. ”

- St. Thomas Aquinas

“ Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation. ”

- St. Thomas Aquinas

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

- St. Thomas Aquinas

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

- St. Thomas Aquinas

“ The End of every maker is himself. ”

- St. Thomas Aquinas

“ Wonder is the desire for knowledge. ”

- St. 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. ”

- St. Thomas Aquinas

“ Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation. ”

- St. Thomas Aquinas

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

- St. Thomas Aquinas

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

- St. Thomas Aquinas

“ The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing. ”

- St. Thomas Aquinas

“ The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing. ”

- St. Thomas Aquinas

“ Now just vengeance is taken only for that which is done unjustly; hence that which provokes anger is always something considered in the light of an injustice. ”

- St. Thomas Aquinas

“ When fear is excessive it can make many a man despair. ”

- St. Thomas Aquinas

“ 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. ”

- St. Thomas Aquinas

“ When fear is excessive it can make many a man despair. ”

- St. Thomas Aquinas

“ 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. ”

- St. Thomas Aquinas

“ 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. ”

- St. Thomas Aquinas

“ When fear is excessive it can make many a man despair. ”

- St. Thomas Aquinas
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