404 Quotes by Thomas Aquinas

Man is closer to God according to his existence in grace than he is according to his existence in nature.

Good can exist without evil, whereas evil cannot exist without good.

To virginity is awarded the tribute of the highest beauty

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.

I cannot go on.... All that I have written seems to me like so much straw compared to what I have seen and what has been revealed to me.

...[sacred] doctrine is especially based upon arguments from authority, inasmuch as its principles are obtained by revelation: thus we ought to believe on the authority of those to whom the revelation has been made. Nor does this take away from the dignity of this doctrine, for although the argument from authority based on human reason is the weakest, yet the argument from authority based on divine revelation is the strongest.

An angel can illumine the thought and mind of man by strengthening the power of vision and by bringing within his reach some truth which the angel himself contemplates.

For just as the first general precepts of the law of nature are self-evident to one in possession of natural reason, and have no need of promulgation, so also that of believing in God is primary and self-evident to one who has faith: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is.

The custom of the Church has very great authority and ought to be jealously observed in all things.