Saint Thomas Aquinas Quotes
In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority of the sovereign. Secondly, a just cause. Thirdly, a rightful intention.
Saint Thomas Aquinas
To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.
Saint Thomas Aquinas
Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become addicted to carnal pleasures.
Saint Thomas Aquinas
Law: an ordinance of reason for the common good, made by him who has care of the community.
Saint Thomas Aquinas
Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do.
Saint Thomas Aquinas
Just as it is better to illuminate than merely to shine, so to pass on what one has contemplated is better than merely to contemplate.
Saint Thomas Aquinas
Down in adoration falling, Lo! the sacred Host we hail; Lo! o'er ancient forms departing, Newer rites of grace prevail; Faith for all defects supplying, Where the feeble senses fail.
Saint Thomas Aquinas
The reason, however, why the philosopher may be likened to the poet is this: both are concerned with the marvellous.
Saint Thomas Aquinas
The most hopeful people in the world are the young and the drunk. The first because they have little experience of failure, and the second because they have succeeded in drowning theirs.
Saint Thomas Aquinas
Sure, for all our blindness; secure, for all our helplessness; strong, for all our weakness; gaily in love, for all the pressures on our hearts.
Saint Thomas Aquinas
Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become addicted to carnal pleasures.
Saint Thomas Aquinas
Music is the exaltation of the mind derived from things eternal, bursting forth in sound.
Saint Thomas Aquinas
