The things we love Thomas Aquinas More Quotes by Thomas Aquinas More Quotes From Thomas Aquinas In the realm of evil thoughts none induces to sin as much as do thoughts that concern the pleasure of the flesh. Thomas Aquinas purity-and-lovecatholicevil Baptism is the door of the spiritual life and the gateway to the sacraments. Thomas Aquinas baptismspiritualdoors The meaning of what is said is according to the motive for saying it: because things are not subject to speech, but speech to things. Therefore we should take account of the motive of the lawgiver, rather than of his very words. Thomas Aquinas speechshouldsaid Arrive at knowledge over small streamlets, and do not plunge immediately into the ocean, since progress must go from the easier to the more difficult. Thomas Aquinas easierprogressocean The soul is known by it's acts. Thomas Aquinas knownsoul God should not be called an individual substance, since the principle of individuation is matter. Thomas Aquinas individualsubstancematter Charity is love; not all love is charity. Thomas Aquinas charitylove-is Whatever a man has in superabundance is owed, of natural right, to the poor for their sustenance. Thomas Aquinas jewish-communitygiving-moneymen Good and evil are essential differences of the act of the will. For good and evil pertain essentially to the will; just as truth and falsehood pertain to the reason, the act of which is distinguished essentially by the difference of truth and falsehood (according as we say that an opinion is true or false.) Consequently, good and evil volition are acts differing in species. Thomas Aquinas true-or-falsedifferencesevil The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false. Thomas Aquinas dogmacatholicmatter Well-ordered self-love is right and natural. Thomas Aquinas philosophicalloverelationship We are like children, who stand in need of masters to enlighten us and direct us; God has provided for this, by appointing his angels to be our teachers and guides. Thomas Aquinas angelteacherchildren A scrap of knowledge about sublime things is worth more than any amount about trivialities. Thomas Aquinas scraptrivialitysublime It is clear that he does not pray, who, far from uplifting himself to God, requires that God shall lower Himself to him, and who resorts to prayer not to stir the man in us to will what God wills, but only to persuade God to will what the man in us wills. Thomas Aquinas upliftingprayerchristian He who is dying of hunger must be fed rather than taught. Thomas Aquinas hungertaughtdying Grace renders us like God and a partaker of the divine nature. Thomas Aquinas divine-naturedivinegrace The splendor of a soul in grace is so seductive that it surpasses the beauty of all created things. Thomas Aquinas seductivesoulgrace Sloth is sluggishness of the mind which neglects to begin good...it is evil in its effect, if it so oppresses man as to draw him away entirely from good deeds. Thomas Aquinas slothevilmen Behold our refutation of the error. It is not based on documents of faith, but on the reasons and statements of the philosophers themselves. If then anyone there be who, boastfully taking pride in his supposed wisdom, wishes to challenge what we have written, let him not do it in some corner nor before children who are powerless to decide on such difficult matters. Let him reply openly if he dare. He shall find me there confronting him, and not only my negligible self, but many another whose study is truth. Thomas Aquinas errorspridechildren The world of pure spirits stretches between the divine nature and the world of human beings; because divine wisdom has ordained that the higher should look after the lower, angels execute the divine plan for human salvation: they are our guardians, who free us when hindered and help to bring us home. Thomas Aquinas angeldivine-wisdomhome
