404 Quotes by Thomas Aquinas

If you are looking for the way by which you should go, take Christ, because he himself is the way.

It is better to illuminate than merely to shine.Maius est illuminare quam lucere solum.

برای آن‌کس که ایمان دارد، هیچ توضیحی لازم نیست. برای آن‌کس که ایمان ندارد، هیچ توضیحی کافی نیست

There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.

Since faith rests upon infallible truth, and since the contrary of a truth can never be demonstrated, it is clear that the arguments brought against faith cannot be demonstrations, but are difficulties that can be answered.

Just as in a physical body the operation of one member contributes to the good of the whole body, so it is in a spiritual body such as the Church. And since all the faithful are one body, the good of one member is communicated to another; everyone members, as the Apostle says, of one another [Eph 4:25]. For that reason, among the points of faith handed down by the Apostles, is that there is a community of goods in the Church, and this is expressed in the words Communion of Saints.

There is within every soul a thirst for happiness and meaning.

Prostitution in the towns is like the cesspool in the palace: take away the cesspool and the palace will become an unclean and evil-smelling place.

The things that we love tell us what we are.