There must be must be a first mover existing above all – and this we call God.
THOMAS AQUINASBeware the man of a single book.
More Thomas Aquinas Quotes
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Faith has to do with things that are not seen, and hope with things that are not in hand.
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Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.
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It is only god who creates. Man merely arranges.
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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.
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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?
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To love is to will the good of the other.
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A mans heart is right when he wills that god wills.
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Better to illuminate than merely to shine to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate.
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To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.
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The Study of philosophy is not that we may know what men have thought, but what the truth of things is.
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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.
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Nothing created has ever been able to fill the heart of man. God alone can fill it infinitely.
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To pretend angels do not exist because they are invisible is to believe we never sleep because we don’t see ourselves sleeping.
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Love follows knowledge.
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He who is not angry when there is just cause for anger is immoral. Why? because anger looks to the good of justice. And if you could live amid injustice without anger, you are immoral as well as unjust.
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