Not everything that is more difficult is more meritorious. Thomas Aquinas More Quotes by Thomas Aquinas More Quotes From Thomas Aquinas If you seek patience, you will find no better example than the cross. Great patience occurs in two ways: either when one patiently suffers much, or when one suffers things which one is able to avoid and yet does not avoid. Christ endured much on the cross, and did so patiently, because when he suffered he did not threaten; he was led like a sheep to the slaughter and he did not open his mouth. Thomas Aquinas sufferingsheeptwo To love God is something greater than to know Him. Thomas Aquinas catholicinspirationfaith Whatever a man has in superabundance is owed, of natural right, to the poor for their sustenance. So Ambrosius says, and it is also to be found in the Decretum Gratiani: The bread which you withhold belongs to the hungry: the clothing you shut away, to the naked: and the money you bury in the earth is the redemption and freedom of the penniless. Thomas Aquinas redemptioncharitymen It would seem that zeal is not an effect of love. For zeal is a beginning of contention. Thomas Aquinas contentioneffectszeal Man is closer to God according to his existence in grace than he is according to his existence in nature. Thomas Aquinas existencegracemen 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 freedominspirelife God is never angry for His sake, only for ours. Thomas Aquinas angrysake 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 devilmadeworld If forgers and malefactors are put to death by the secular power, there is much more reason for excommunicating and even putting to death one convicted of heresy. Thomas Aquinas scarypowerfulreason To convert somebody go and take them by the hand and guide them. Thomas Aquinas philosophicalcatholichands Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do. Thomas Aquinas thoughtfullove-isbelieve By the divine providence [animals] are intended for man's use... Hence it is not wrong for man to make use of them, either by killing or in any other way whatsoever. Thomas Aquinas useanimalmen A man has free choice to the extent that he is rational. Thomas Aquinas thoughtfulpowerfullove-is God himself would not permit evil in this world if good did not come of it for the benefit and harmony of the universe. Thomas Aquinas benefitsevilworld Humility is the mark of a genuine disciple. Thomas Aquinas genuinehumilityhumble 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 palacestownsevil In the end, we know God as unknown. Thomas Aquinas knowing-godendsfaith Every judgement of conscience, be it right or wrong, be it about things evil in themselves or morally indifferent, is obligatory, in such wise that he who acts against his conscience always sins. Thomas Aquinas powerfulwisdomwise The soul is like an uninhabited world that comes to life only when God lays His head against us. Thomas Aquinas soulgodworld Now it seems that everything in the world stems from sources other than God, since the products of nature have their source in nature; deliberate effects can be traced back to human reason or will as their source. There is no need then to assume that God exists. Thomas Aquinas atheismneedsreligion
