St. Thomas Aquinas Quotes
Thus Angels' Bread is made The Bread of man today: The Living Bread from Heaven With figures doth away: O wondrous gift indeed! The poor and lowly may Upon their Lord and Master feed.
Gods are called many by the error of some who worshipped many deities, thinking as they did the planets and other stars were gods, and also the separate parts of the world.
The Bread of angels has become the Bread of mankind; This heavenly Bread puts an end to all images; O wonderful reality! The poor, the slave, and the humble can eat the Lord.
The soul is like an uninhabited worldthat comes to life only whenGod lays His headagainst us.
Better to illuminate than merely to shine to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate.
I receive Thee ransom of my soul. For love of Thee have I studied and kept vigil toiled preached and taught…
If you are looking for the way by which you should go, take Christ, because he himself is the way.
The author challenges how much sanctity has to do with sameness, as he says saints are as different from each other as those in any group -- even murderers.
...this clumsy collision of two very impatient forms of ignorance was known as the quarrel of Science and Religion.
Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not in hand.
Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.
Law is nothing other than a certain ordinance of reason for the common good, promulgated by the person who has the care of the community.
We can't have full knowledge all at once. We must start by believing then afterwards we may be led on to master the evidence for ourselves.