Quotes by Thomas Aquinas
Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) — Theologe · Katholisch · Italien
Thomas von Aquin (1225–1274) war ein italienischer Dominikanermönch und scholastischer Theologe, der vor allem an den Universitäten in Paris und Neapel lehrte. Er steht für die systematische Verbindung von biblischer Offenbarung mit der Philosophie des Aristoteles sowie für den Grundsatz, dass Glaube und Vernunft einander ergänzen. Heutigen Bibellesern begegnet sein Werk als Fundament der katholischen Dogmatik und Ethik, während Positionen wie seine Befürwortung der Todesstrafe für Häretiker historisch kritisch bewertet werden.
Era: The Middle Ages
Recurring topics: God, Jesus & the Holy Spirit, Wisdom & Understanding, Meaning & Identity, Grace & Redemption, Faith & Trust, Humility & Pride, Ethical Questions, Love
Quotes by Thomas Aquinas
To love is to will the good of another.
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Love your fate, for it is God's path through your soul.
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To patiently endure a wrong done to another is a mark of imperfection, indeed of real sin.
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Our life cannot always be full of joy, but it can always be full of love.
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A friend is better than honour, and to be loved is better than to be honoured.
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Happiness consists in self-application to something higher.
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This is the utmost of human knowledge of God: to know that we do not know God.
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Among all passions of the soul, sadness brings the greatest harm to the body.
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The sins against the 6th commandment are by no means the worst, but they are the stickiest.
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Sin offends God because it harms man.
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God will not forget those who forgot themselves to think of others.
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The revelation of God shows us more what He is not than what He is.
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Thomas Aquinas
Though the eye of the night bird may not see the sun, the eye of the eagle beholds it nonetheless.
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The ultimate happiness and felicity of God, of the angel, and of man is: to behold God.
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Truly we can open our heart to God, but not without divine help.
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When we think rightly, we are in God; when we live rightly, God is in us.
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Thomas Aquinas
Even that which we do not deserve, we obtain through prayer.
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Prayer makes us friends of God.
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Whoever guards the holy words is guarded by them.
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The highest perfection of human life lies in man's mind being free and vacant for God.
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Not everyone who is enlightened by an angel recognizes that he is enlightened by an angel.
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Our knowing mind, in knowing something, stretches out into the infinite.
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Though created beings are perishable, they will never sink back into nothingness.
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Wonder is the desire for knowledge.
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Faith is a foretaste of that knowledge which makes us blessed in the future.
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The greatest benefit one can bestow upon a human being is to lead them from error to truth.
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Baptism is the beginning of the spiritual life and the gateway to the sacraments.
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God and what is in God has not an end, but is the end.
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By natural necessity man wills the good.
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Neither Christian nor pagan knows the essence of God as it is in itself.
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I would not believe if I did not see that it is reasonable to believe.
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Nothing succeeds well that is not accomplished with joy.
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For miracles one must pray, for changes one must work.
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