Quotes by Thomas Aquinas

About Thomas Aquinas:

Tommaso d'Aquino is also known as the "Doctor Angelicus" and "Doctor Communis". He is heralded as the most influential Western medieval legal scholar and theologist. The name "Aquinas" identifies his ancestral origins in the county of Aquino (in the present-day Lazio region), an area where his family held land until 1137.
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Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them.

Thomas Aquinas

Every judgement of conscience, be it right or wrong, be it about things evil in themselves or morally indifferent, is obligatory, in such wise that he who acts against his conscience always sins.

Thomas Aquinas

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Thomas Aquinas

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

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Human salvation demands the divine disclosure of truths surpassing reason.

Thomas Aquinas

All that is true, by whomsoever it has been said has its origin in the Spirit.

Thomas Aquinas

Not everything that is more difficult is more meritorious.

Thomas Aquinas

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

Thomas Aquinas

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

Thomas Aquinas

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

Thomas Aquinas

The blessed in the kingdom of heaven will see the punishments of the damned, in order that their bliss be more delightful for them.

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Mercy without justice is the mother of dissolution; justice without mercy is cruelty.

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 perfectl...

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

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I receive Thee ransom of my soul. For love of Thee have I studied and kept vigil toiled preached and taught…

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Beware the man of a single book.

Thomas Aquinas

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

Thomas Aquinas

A song is the exultation of the mind dwelling on eternal things, bursting forth in the voice.

Thomas Aquinas

It is not theft, properly speaking, to take secretly and use another's 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

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Creator of all things, true source of light and wisdom, origin of all being, graciously let a ray of your light penetrate the darkness of my understanding. Take from me the double darkness in which I have been born, an obscurity of sin and ignorance....

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Give us, O Lord, a steadfast heart, which no unworthy affection may drag downwards; give us an unconquered heart, which no tribulation can wear out; give us an upright heart, which no unworthy purpose may tempt aside. Bestow upon us also, O Lord our ...

Thomas Aquinas

Author Bio

  • NameThomas Aquinas
  • DescriptionItalian Dominican priest of the Roman Catholic Church
  • BornJanuary 28, 1225
  • DiedMarch 7, 1274
  • CountryItaly
  • ProfessionPhilosopher; Writer; Theologian; Friar
  • WorksSumma Theologica; Summa Contra Gentiles