St. Thomas Aquinas, priest and doctor of the Church, patron of all universities and of students. He entered the Order of St. Dominic in spite of the opposition of his family. At the age of seventeen, he joined the Dominicans of Naples. St. Thomas was one of the greatest and most influential theologians of all time. He was canonized in 1323 and declared Doctor of the Church by Pope Pius V.
(1225 – 1274)
– Thomas Aquinas Quotes –
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
The essence of finite things is separable from their existence.
~ Thomas Aquinas
God is not only the first cause of all motion in the finite order, he is also the concurrent cause of all the operations of the natural order.
~ Thomas Aquinas
Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.
~ Thomas Aquinas
Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them.
~ Thomas Aquinas
The forms or ideas of things, therefore, subsist primarily in things rather than as independent extra-mental forms or as mental abstractions resting on examination of things.
~ Thomas Aquinas
Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.
~ Thomas Aquinas
The knowledge of God is the cause of things. For the knowledge of God is to all creatures what the knowledge of the artificer is to things made by his art.
~ Thomas Aquinas
All that is true, by whomsoever it has been said has its origin in the Spirit.
~ Thomas Aquinas
The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing.
~ Thomas Aquinas
Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder.
~ Thomas Aquinas
Philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables.
~ Thomas Aquinas
Because of the diverse conditions of humans, it happens that some acts are virtuous to some people, as appropriate and suitable to them, while the same acts are immoral for others, as inappropriate to them.
~ Thomas Aquinas
The existence of God is not self-evident to reason, but it is demonstrable.
~ Thomas Aquinas
Not everything that is more difficult is more meritorious.
~ Thomas Aquinas
Human knowledge arises as a result of the intellectual analysis of the forms of things as they area accessible to sense perception.
~ Thomas Aquinas
The principal act of courage is to endure and withstand dangers doggedly rather than to attack them.
~ Thomas Aquinas
All the efforts of the human mind cannot exhaust the essence of a single fly.
~ Thomas Aquinas
A man has free choice to the extent that he is rational.
~ Thomas Aquinas
The substances of finite things consist in a union matter and form.
~ Thomas Aquinas
Because we cannot know what God is, but only what He is not, we cannot consider how He is but only how He is not.
~ Thomas Aquinas
Reason in man is rather like God in the world.
~ Thomas Aquinas
The finite order receives its existence by ‘participation’ in the divine.
~ Thomas Aquinas
