Top 250 Thomas Aquinas Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “The Study of philosophy is not that we may know what men have thought, but what the truth of things is.”

— Thomas Aquinas

52. “Any error about creation also leads to an error about God.”

— Thomas Aquinas

53. “In the life of the body a man is sometimes sick, and unless he takes medicine, he will die. Even so in the spiritual life a man is sick on account of sin. For that reason he needs medicine so that he may be restored to health; and this grace is bestowed in the Sacrament of Penance.”

— Thomas Aquinas

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

— Thomas Aquinas

55. “To the Everlasting Father, And the Son who made us free And the Spirit, God proceeding From them Each eternally, Be salvation, honour, blessing, Might and endless majesty.”

— Thomas Aquinas

56. “Obedience unites us so closely to God that it in a way transforms us into Him, so that we have no other will but His. If obedience is lacking, even prayer cannot be pleasing to God.”

— Thomas Aquinas

57. “There can be no joy in living without joy in work.”

— Thomas Aquinas

58. “Of all the pursuits open to men, the search for wisdom is most perfect, more sublime, more profitable, and more full of joy.”

— Thomas Aquinas

59. “The end of every maker is himself.”

— Thomas Aquinas

60. “Bestow upon me, O Lord my God, understanding to know thee, diligence to seek thee, wisdom to find thee, and a faithfulness that may finally embrace thee.”

— Thomas Aquinas

61. “Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.”

— Thomas Aquinas

62. “One aspect of neighbourly love is that we must not merely will our neighbours good, but actually work to bring it about.”

— Thomas Aquinas

63. “You change people by delight, by pleasure.”

— Thomas Aquinas

64. “To virginity is awarded the tribute of the highest beauty.”

— Thomas Aquinas

65. “We should love others truly, for their own sakes rather than our own.”

— Thomas Aquinas

66. “As mariners are guided into port by the shining of a star, so Christians are guided to heaven by Mary.”

— Thomas Aquinas

67. “The existence of a prime mover- nothing can move itself; there must be a first mover. The first mover is called God.”

— Thomas Aquinas

68. “Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.”

— Thomas Aquinas

69. “Charity is the form, mover, mother and root of all the virtues.”

— Thomas Aquinas

70. “It would be superfluous to receive by faith, things that can be known by natural reason.”

— Thomas Aquinas

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

— Thomas Aquinas

72. “Love follows knowledge.”

— Thomas Aquinas

73. “Hominem unius libri timeo.”

— Thomas Aquinas

74. “We set forth our petitions before God, not in order to make known to Him our needs and desires, but rather so that we ourselves may realize that in these things it is necessary to turn to God for help.”

— Thomas Aquinas

75. “To disparage the dictate of reason is equivalent to contemning the command of God.”

— Thomas Aquinas

76. “Miracles are signs not to them that believe, but to them that believe not.”

— Thomas Aquinas

77. “Grant me, O Lord my God, a mind to know you, a heart to seek you, wisdom to find you, conduct pleasing to you, faithful perseverance in waiting for you, and a hope of finally embracing you. Amen.”

— Thomas Aquinas

78. “Since faith rests upon infallible truth, and since the contrary of a truth can never be demonstrated, it is clear that the arguments brought against faith cannot be demonstrations, but are difficulties that can be answered.”

— Thomas Aquinas

79. “It is only God who creates. Man merely rearranges.”

— Thomas Aquinas

80. “Art is right reason in the doing of work.”

— Thomas Aquinas

81. “Prostitution in the towns is like the cesspool in the palace: take away the cesspool and the palace will become an unclean and evil-smelling place.”

— Thomas Aquinas

82. “In the end, we know God as unknown.”

— Thomas Aquinas

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

— Thomas Aquinas

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

— Thomas Aquinas

85. “But man is freer than all the animals, on account of his free-will, with which he is endowed above all other animals.”

— Thomas Aquinas

86. “The only-begotten Son of God, wanting to make us sharers in His divinity, assumed our nature, so that He, made man, might make men gods.”

— Thomas Aquinas

87. “Charity is love; not all love is charity.”

— Thomas Aquinas

88. “The soul is perfected by knowledge and virtue.”

— Thomas Aquinas

89. “Sin is a spiritual illness; thus sinners are in need of salvation.”

— Thomas Aquinas

90. “There is nothing in your mind which wasn’t experienced before hand.”

— Thomas Aquinas

91. “Nothing which implies contradiction falls under the omnipotence of God.”

— Thomas Aquinas

92. “Most men seem to live according to sense rather than reason.”

— Thomas Aquinas

93. “Every truth without exception- and whoever may utter it- is from the Holy Spirit.”

— Thomas Aquinas

94. “Even as in the blessed in heaven there will be most perfect charity, so in the damned there will be the most perfect hate. Wherefore as the saints will rejoice in all goods, so will the damned grieve for all goods. Consequently the sight of the happiness of the saints will give them very great pain.”

— Thomas Aquinas

95. “I can write no more. All that I have written seems like straw.”

— Thomas Aquinas

96. “A man’s heart is right when he wills what God wills.”

— Thomas Aquinas

97. “The human mind may perceive truth only through thinking, as is clear from Augustine.”

— Thomas Aquinas

98. “Faith has to do with things that are not seen, and hope with things that are not in hand.”

— Thomas Aquinas

99. “We can open our hearts to God, but only with Divine help.”

— Thomas Aquinas

100. “It is necessary for the perfection of human society that there should be men who devote their lives to contemplation.”

— Thomas Aquinas