Top 250 Thomas Aquinas Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “An angel can illumine the thought and mind of man by strengthening the power of vision and by bringing within his reach some truth which the angel himself contemplates.”

— Thomas Aquinas

152. “Eternity is called whole, not because it has parts, but because it is lacking in nothing.”

— Thomas Aquinas

153. “The Cross to me is certain salvation. The Cross is that which I ever adore. The Cross of the Lord is with me. The Cross is my refuge.”

— Thomas Aquinas

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

— Thomas Aquinas

155. “The Angel’s bread is made the Bread of man today.”

— Thomas Aquinas

156. “Every cell in us worships God.”

— Thomas Aquinas

157. “For although the will cannot be inwardly moved by any creature, yet it can be moved inwardly by God.”

— Thomas Aquinas

158. “First, I say that he draws near to those who make peace with him. For God is the One who brings about peace; and where else should peace dwell than in peace?”

— Thomas Aquinas

159. “He that obstinately denieth the truth before men upon earth, wilfully refuseth his soul’s health in heaven.”

— Thomas Aquinas

160. “Whenever God wakes in us, our thinking becomes clear – nothing is missing.”

— Thomas Aquinas

161. “This Blood that but one drop of has the power to win all the world forgiveness of its world of sin.”

— Thomas Aquinas

162. “Good can exist without evil, whereas evil cannot exist without good.”

— Thomas Aquinas

163. “What does it take to become a saint? Will it.”

— Thomas Aquinas

164. “He who achieves power by violence does not truly become lord or master.”

— Thomas Aquinas

165. “The highest perfection of human life consists in the mind of man being detached from care, for the sake of God.”

— Thomas Aquinas

166. “To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin.”

— Thomas Aquinas

167. “Godhead here in hiding, whom I adore Masked by these bare shadows, shape and nothing more, See, Lord, at thy service low lies here a heart Lost, all lost in wonder at the God thou art.”

— Thomas Aquinas

168. “When the devil is called the god of this world, it is not because he made it, but because we serve him with our worldliness.”

— Thomas Aquinas

169. “A scrap of knowledge about sublime things is worth more than any amount about trivialities.”

— Thomas Aquinas

170. “The image of God always abides in the soul, whether this image be obsolete and clouded over as to amount to almost nothing; or whether it be obscured or disfigured, as is the case with sinners; or whether it be clear and beautiful as is the case with the just.”

— Thomas Aquinas

171. “To be united to God in unity of person was not fitting to human flesh, according to its natural endowments, since it was above his dignity; nevertheless, it was fitting that God, by reason of his infinite goodness, should unite it to himself for human salvation.”

— Thomas Aquinas

172. “All my words are but chaff next to the faith of a simple man.”

— Thomas Aquinas

173. “Jesus Lord, kind Pelican, Cleanse my filth with Thy blood, One drop of which can save The whole world from all its sin.”

— Thomas Aquinas

174. “All men are equal in nature, and also in original sin. It is in the merits and demerits of their actions that they differ.”

— Thomas Aquinas

175. “The times are never so bad that a good man cannot live in them.”

— Thomas Aquinas

176. “It is a sin directly against one’s neighbour, since one man cannot over-abound in external riches, without another man lacking them.”

— Thomas Aquinas

177. “Now this relaxation of the mind from work consists on playful words or deeds. Therefore it becomes a wise and virtuous man to have recourse to such things at times.”

— Thomas Aquinas

178. “Do not wish to jump immediately from the streams to the sea, because one has to go through easier things to the more difficult.”

— Thomas Aquinas

179. “There would not be a perfect likeness of God in the universe if all things were of one grade of being.”

— Thomas Aquinas

180. “The celestial bodies are the cause of all that takes place in the sublunar world.”

— Thomas Aquinas

181. “He who is dying of hunger must be fed rather than taught.”

— Thomas Aquinas

182. “For just as the first general precepts of the law of nature are self-evident to one in possession of natural reason, and have no need of promulgation, so also that of believing in God is primary and self-evident to one who has faith: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is.”

— Thomas Aquinas

183. “There being an imminent danger for the faith, prelates must be questioned, even publicly, by their subjects.”

— Thomas Aquinas

184. “In the realm of evil thoughts none induces to sin as much as do thoughts that concern the pleasure of the flesh.”

— Thomas Aquinas

185. “There is, therefore, a more perfect intellectual life in the angels. In them the intellect does not proceed to self-knowledge from anything exterior, but knows itself through itself...”

— Thomas Aquinas

186. “We ought to cherish the body. Our body’s substance is not from an evil principle, as the Manicheans imagine, but from God. And therefore, we ought to cherish the body by the friendship of love, by which we love God.”

— Thomas Aquinas

187. “Down in adoration falling, Lo! the sacred Host we hail; Lo! o’er ancient forms departing, Newer rites of grace prevail; Faith for all defects supplying, Where the feeble senses fail.”

— Thomas Aquinas

188. “Now, nothing can be brought from potentiality to actual existence except through something actually existing.”

— Thomas Aquinas

189. “It is absurd and a detestable shame, that we should suffer those traditions to be changed which we have received from the fathers of old.”

— Thomas Aquinas

190. “God answered the prayers of animals.”

— Thomas Aquinas

191. “Being born he have himself as our Companion, Eating with us he gave himself as Food, Dying He became our Ransom, Reigning he gives himself as our Reward.”

— Thomas Aquinas

192. “Don’t ask who said it? Ask what they said.”

— Thomas Aquinas

193. “It is necessary to posit something which is necessary of itself, and has no cause of its necessity outside of itself but is the cause of necessity in other things. And all people call this thing God.”

— Thomas Aquinas

194. “God is never angry for His sake, only for ours.”

— Thomas Aquinas

195. “Mistakes are made on two counts: an argument is either based on error or incorrectly developed.”

— Thomas Aquinas

196. “There is no leisure about politics.”

— Thomas Aquinas

197. “I cannot understand how anyone conscious of mortal sin can laugh or be merry.”

— Thomas Aquinas

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

— Thomas Aquinas

199. “If someone knows from experience that daily Communion increases fervor without lessening reverence, then let him go every day. But if someone finds that reverence is lessened and devotion not much increased, then let him sometimes abstain, so as to draw near afterwards with better dispositions.”

— Thomas Aquinas

200. “Faith does not quench desire, but inflames it.”

— Thomas Aquinas