404 Quotes by Thomas Aquinas

As mariners are guided into port by the shining of a star, so Christians are guided to heaven by Mary.

Miracles are signs not to them that believe, but to them that believe not.

Mary means Star of the sea, for as mariners are guided to port by the ocean star, so Christians attain to glory through Mary's maternal intercession.

So, to detract from the perfection of creatures is to detract from the perfection of divine power.

You change people by delight, by pleasure.

Jesus Lord, kind Pelican, Cleanse my filth with Thy blood, One drop of which can save The whole world from all its sin

God's precepts are light to the loving, heavy to the fearful.

For creation is not a change, but that dependence of the created existence on the principle from which it is instituted, and thus is of the genus of relation; whence nothing prohibits it being in the created as in the subject. Creation is thus said to be a kind of change, according to the way of understanding, insofar as our intellect accepts one and the same thing as not existing before and afterwards existing.

O how unspeakable is this Sacrament which sets our affections ablaze with charity. ... It is the fulfillment of Christ's Mystical Body.