Top 250 Thomas Aquinas Quotes (2025 Update)

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

— Thomas Aquinas

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2. “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 can live amid injustice without anger, you are immoral as well as unjust.”

— Thomas Aquinas

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

— Thomas Aquinas

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

— Thomas Aquinas

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

— Thomas Aquinas

6. “Humility is the mark of a genuine disciple.”

— Thomas Aquinas

7. “Christ was either liar, lunatic, or Lord!”

— Thomas Aquinas

8. “Wonder is the desire of knowledge.”

— Thomas Aquinas

9. “To love God is something greater than to know Him.”

— Thomas Aquinas

10. “The greatest kindness one can render to any man consists in leading him from error to truth.”

— Thomas Aquinas

11. “There is within every soul a thirst for happiness and meaning.”

— Thomas Aquinas

12. “No man truly has joy unless he lives in love.”

— Thomas Aquinas

13. “Beware the man of a single book.”

— Thomas Aquinas

14. “To love is to will the good of the other.”

— Thomas Aquinas

15. “There must be must be a first mover existing above all – and this we call God.”

— Thomas Aquinas

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16. “One cannot use an evil action with reference to a good intention.”

— Thomas Aquinas

17. “The truth of the Christian faith surpasses the capacity of reason.”

— Thomas Aquinas

18. “Fear is such a powerful emotion for humans that when we allow it to take us over, it drives compassion right out of our hearts.”

— Thomas Aquinas

19. “If you can live amid injustice without anger, you are immoral as well as unjust.”

— Thomas Aquinas

20. “The celebration of Holy Mass is as valuable as the death of Jesus on the cross.”

— Thomas Aquinas

21. “Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man’s own will.”

— Thomas Aquinas

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22. “Theology is taught by God, teaches God, and leads to God.”

— Thomas Aquinas

23. “We must love them both, those whose opinions we share and those whose opinions we reject, for both have labored in the search for truth, and both have helped us in finding it.”

— Thomas Aquinas

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

— Thomas Aquinas

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

— Thomas Aquinas

26. “Baptism is the door of the spiritual life and the gateway to the sacraments.”

— Thomas Aquinas

27. “Better to illuminate than merely to shine to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate.”

— Thomas Aquinas

28. “The splendor of a soul in grace is so seductive that it surpasses the beauty of all created things.”

— Thomas Aquinas

29. “Faith will tell us Christ is present, When our human senses fail.”

— Thomas Aquinas

30. “Faith is God’s work within us.”

— Thomas Aquinas

31. “The Eucharist is the Sacrament of Love; It signifies Love, It produces love. The Eucharist is the consummation of the whole spiritual life.”

— Thomas Aquinas

32. “Better to illuminate, than merely to shine.”

— Thomas Aquinas

33. “The soul is known by it’s acts.”

— Thomas Aquinas

34. “In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority of the sovereign. Secondly, a just cause. Thirdly, a rightful intention.”

— Thomas Aquinas

35. “Characteristics which define beauty are wholeness, harmony and radiance.”

— Thomas Aquinas

36. “God has need for our worship. It is we who need to show our gratitude for what we have received.”

— Thomas Aquinas

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

— Thomas Aquinas

38. “Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in the circumstances confronting him.”

— Thomas Aquinas

39. “Give, expecting nothing there of.”

— Thomas Aquinas

40. “He who does not embrace the teaching of the Church does not have the habit of faith.”

— Thomas Aquinas

41. “The soul, which is the first principle of life, is not a body, but the act of a body; just as heat, which is the principle of calefaction, is not a body, but an act of a body.”

— Thomas Aquinas

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42. “Rarely affirm, seldom deny, always distinguish.”

— Thomas Aquinas

43. “Believing is an act of the intellect assenting to the divine truth by command of the will moved by God through grace.”

— Thomas Aquinas

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

— Thomas Aquinas

45. “Grace does not destroy nature, it perfects it.”

— Thomas Aquinas

46. “I would rather feel compassion than know the meaning of it. I would hope to act with compassion without thinking of personal gain.”

— Thomas Aquinas

47. “True peace consists in not separating ourselves from the will of God.”

— Thomas Aquinas

48. “Mary means Star of the sea, for as mariners are guided to port by the ocean star, so Christians attain to glory through Mary’s maternal intercession.”

— Thomas Aquinas

49. “Anything done against faith or conscience is sinful.”

— Thomas Aquinas

50. “Law; an ordinance of reason for the common good, made by him who has care of the community.”

— Thomas Aquinas