Thomas Aquinas Quotes

The principal act of courage is to endure and withstand dangers doggedly rather than to attack them.

Thomas Aquinas

To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.

Thomas Aquinas

The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false.

Thomas Aquinas

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

Thomas Aquinas

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

Thomas Aquinas

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

Thomas Aquinas

Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice.

Thomas Aquinas

Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.

Thomas Aquinas

The things that we love tell us what we are.

Thomas Aquinas

Wonder is the desire for knowledge.

Thomas Aquinas

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.

Thomas Aquinas

Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.

Thomas Aquinas

If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.

Thomas Aquinas

To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin.

Thomas Aquinas

If, then, you are looking for the way by which you should go, take Christ, because He Himself is the way.

Thomas Aquinas

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.

Thomas Aquinas