Thomas Aquinas Quotes

Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, Catholic priest, and Doctor of the Church (1225–1274)

Saint Thomas Aquinas (c. 1225 – 7 March 1274) was an Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, Catholic priest, and Doctor of the Church. An immensely influential philosopher, theologian, and jurist in the tradition of scholasticism, he is also known within the latter as the Doctor Angelicus, the Doctor Communis, and the Doctor Universalis. The name Aquinas identifies his ancestral origins in the county of Aquino in present-day Lazio, Italy. Among other things, he was a prominent proponent of natural theology and the father of a school of thought (encompassing both theology and philosophy) known as Thomism. He argued that God is the source of both the light of natural reason and the light of faith. His influence on Western thought is considerable, and much of modern philosophy is derived from his ideas, particularly in the areas of ethics, natural law, metaphysics, and political theory.

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Native Name: Thomas Aquinos

Alternative Names: Saint Thomas Aquinas • Saint Thomas • Tommaso d'Aquino • Thomas of Aquino • St Thomas Aquinas • St. Thomas Aquinas • Aquinas • Angelic Doctor • Dumb Ox

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Mercy without justice is the mother of dissolution; justice without mercy is cruelty.

Obedience unites us so closely to God that it in a way transforms us into Him, so that we have no other will but His.
If obedience is lacking, even prayer cannot be pleasing to God.

God is never angry for His sake, only for ours.

While injustice is the worst of sins, despair is the most dangerous; because when you are in despair you care neither about yourself nor about others.

The happy man in this life needs friends.

A song is the exultation of the mind dwelling on eternal things, bursting forth in the voice.

It is not theft, properly speaking, to take secretly and use another's property in a case of extreme need: because that which he takes for the support of his life becomes his own property by reason of that need

Man has free choice, or otherwise counsels, exhortations, commands, prohibitions, rewards and punishments would be in vain.

The human mind may perceive truth only through thinking, as is clear from Augustine.

Nothing which implies contradiction falls under the omnipotence of God.

Many cry to the Lord that they may win riches, that they may avoid losses; they cry that their family may be established, they ask for temporal happiness, for worldly dignities; and, lastly, they cry for bodily health, which is the patrimony of the poor. For these and suchlike things many cry to the Lord; hardly one cries for the Lord Himself! How easy it is for a man to desire all manner of things from the Lord and yet not desire the Lord Himself! As though the gift could be sweeter than the Giver!

Creator of all things, true source of light and wisdom, origin of all being, graciously let a ray of your light penetrate the darkness of my understanding. Take from me the double darkness in which I have been born, an obscurity of sin and ignorance. Give me a keen understanding, a retentive memory, and the ability to grasp things correctly and fundamentally. Grant me the talent of being exact in my explanations and the ability to express myself with thoroughness and charm. Point out the beginning, direct the progress, and help in the completion.

Man should not consider his material possessions as his own, but as common to all, so as to share them without hesitation when others are in need

Beware of the person of one book

If you are looking for the way by which you should go, take Christ, because he himself is the way.

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