404 Quotes by Thomas Aquinas

The servants of God...whether provoked by word or work, by keeping themselves tranquil and peaceful, evince a perfect nobleness of soul.

If you seek patience, you will find no better example than the cross. Great patience occurs in two ways: either when one patiently suffers much, or when one suffers things which one is able to avoid and yet does not avoid. Christ endured much on the cross, and did so patiently, because when he suffered he did not threaten; he was led like a sheep to the slaughter and he did not open his mouth.

All the efforts of the human mind cannot exhaust the essence of a single fly.

Christ was either liar, lunatic, or Lord!

Baptism is the Sacrament of Faith. Now, dead faith does not suffice for salvation .. .Therefore, the Sacrament of Baptism cannot give salvation to a man whose will ... expels the form of faith.

To live well is to work well, to show a good activity.

It is a sin directly against one's neighbour, since one man cannot over-abound in external riches, without another man lacking them.

The proper effect of the Eucharist is the transformation of man into God.

A man has free choice to the extent that he is rational.