404 Quotes by Thomas Aquinas

We should love others truly, for their own sakes rather than our own.

Good and evil are essential differences of the act of the will. For good and evil pertain essentially to the will; just as truth and falsehood pertain to the reason, the act of which is distinguished essentially by the difference of truth and falsehood (according as we say that an opinion is true or false.) Consequently, good and evil volition are acts differing in species.

When the devil is called the god of this world, it is not because he made it, but because we serve him with our worldliness.

God answered the prayers of animals.

For although the will cannot be inwardly moved by any creature, yet it can be moved inwardly by God.

All my words are but chaff next to the faith of a simple man.

Obedience unites us so closely to God that it in a way transforms us into Him, so that we have no other will but His. If obedience is lacking, even prayer cannot be pleasing to God.

Every truth without exception- and whoever may utter it- is from the Holy Spirit.

Godhead here in hiding, whom I adore Masked by these bare shadows, shape and nothing more, See, Lord, at thy service low lies here a heart Lost, all lost in wonder at the God thou art