Thomas Aquinas
Thomas Aquinas
Thomas Aquinas, O.P., was an Italian Dominican friar, Catholic priest, and Doctor of the Church. He was an immensely influential philosopher, theologian, and jurist in the tradition of scholasticism, within which he is also known as the Doctor Angelicus and the Doctor Communis. The name Aquinas identifies his ancestral origins in the county of Aquino in present-day Lazio, where his family held land until 1137...
NationalityItalian
ProfessionTheologian
CountryItaly
doe saint bidding
Whatever was in the human nature of Christ was moved at the bidding of the divine will; yet it does not follow that in Christ there was no movement of the will proper to human nature, for the good wills of other saints are moved by God's will... For although the will cannot be inwardly moved by any creature, yet it can be moved inwardly by God.
powerful grieving saint
As the saints will rejoice in all goods, so will the damned grieve for all goods.
powerful suffering saint
The principal act of courage is to endure and withstand dangers doggedly rather than to attack them.
believe may saint
We can't have full knowledge all at once. We must start by believing; then afterwards we may be led on to master the evidence for ourselves.
catholic saint doe
What does it take to become a saint? Will it.
faith inspiration saint
To love God is something greater than to know Him.
powerful catholic saint
If, then, you are looking for the way by which you should go, take Christ, because He Himself is the way.
american-comedian care certain common ordinance reason
Law is nothing other than a certain ordinance of reason for the common good, promulgated by the person who has the care of the community.
passion soul would-be
Charity is not a potency of the soul, because if it were it would be natural. Nor is it a passion, because it is not in a sensitive potency in which are all passions. Nor is it a habit, because a habit is removed with difficulty; charity, however, is easily lost through one act of mortal sin. Therefore charity is not something created in the soul.
jesus kings spring
Sing, my tongue, the Saviour's glory, Of His Flesh, the mystery sing; Of the Blood, all price exceeding, Shed by our Immortal King, Destined, for the world's redemption, From a noble Womb to spring.
love moving circles
Love works in a circle, for the beloved moves the lover by stamping a likeness, and the lover then goes out to hold the beloved inreality. Who first was the beginning now becomes the end of motion.
men grace existence
Man is closer to God according to his existence in grace than he is according to his existence in nature.
goes-on straws written
I cannot go on.... All that I have written seems to me like so much straw compared to what I have seen and what has been revealed to me.
faith believe self
For just as the first general precepts of the law of nature are self-evident to one in possession of natural reason, and have no need of promulgation, so also that of believing in God is primary and self-evident to one who has faith: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is.