Good can exist without evil, whereas evil cannot exist without good. Thomas Aquinas More Quotes by Thomas Aquinas More Quotes From Thomas Aquinas We should love others truly, for their own sakes rather than our own. Thomas Aquinas sakeshould Characteristics which define beauty are wholeness, harmony and radiance. Thomas Aquinas radiancechristianbeauty 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 bodysoulfirsts This Blood that but one drop of has the power to win all the world forgiveness of its world of sin. Thomas Aquinas forgivenesswinningblood 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 catholicmenson 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 libertypowerfulpeople Peace is the work of justice indirectly, in so far as justice removes the obstacles to peace; but it is the work of charity (love) directly, since charity, according to its very notion, causes peace. Thomas Aquinas catholicjusticepeace That the saints may enjoy their beatitude and the grace of God more abundantly they are permitted to see the punishment of the damned in hell. Thomas Aquinas thoughtfulpowerfullove-is To live well is to work well, to show a good activity. Thomas Aquinas live-wellpowerfulshows There must be must be a first mover existing above all – and this we call God. Thomas Aquinas firsts O how unspeakable is this Sacrament which sets our affections ablaze with charity. ... It is the fulfillment of Christ's Mystical Body. Thomas Aquinas affectioncharitybody 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 counterfeitsoul Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice. Thomas Aquinas philosophicaljusticefriendship Whatever is received is received according to the nature of the recipient. Thomas Aquinas philosophical Every truth without exception- and whoever may utter it- is from the Holy Spirit. Thomas Aquinas holinessspiritmay Any error about creation also leads to an error about God. Thomas Aquinas creationerrors Venial sin becomes mortal sin when one approves it as an end. . . Thomas Aquinas mortal-sinsinends Man has free choice, or otherwise counsels, exhortations, commands, prohibitions, rewards and punishments would be in vain. Thomas Aquinas choiceswould-bemen The Sacrament of the Body of the Lord puts the demons to flight, defends us against the incentives to vice and to concupiscence, cleanses the soul from sin, quiets the anger of God, enlightens the understanding to know God, inflames the will and the affections with the love of God, fills the memory with spiritual sweetness, confirms the entire man in good, frees us from eternal death, multiplies the merits of a good life, leads us to our everlasting home, and re-animates the body to eternal life Thomas Aquinas good-lifespiritualmemories The fire of hell is called eternal, only because it never ends. Still, there is change in the pains of the lost... Hence in hell true eternity does not exist, but rather time. Thomas Aquinas painfiredoe
