404 Quotes by Thomas Aquinas

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.

The world tempts us either by attaching us to it in prosperity, or by filling us with fear of adversity. But faith overcomes this in that we believe in a life to come better than this one, and hence we despise the riches of this world and we are not terrified in the face of adversity.

Faith has to do with things that are not seen, and hope with things that are not in hand.

Whatever a man has in superabundance is owed, of natural right, to the poor for their sustenance.

Whatever is received into something is received according to the condition of the receiver.

The times are never so bad that a good man cannot live in them.

Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man’s own will.

We ought to cherish the body. Our body’s substance is not from an evil principle, as the Manicheans imagine, but from God. And therefore, we ought to cherish the body by the friendship of love, by which we love God.

To virginity is awarded the tribute of the highest beauty.