Thomas Aquinas Quotes

“Consequently love must needs precede hatred; and nothing is hated, save through being contrary to a suitable thing which is loved. And hence it is that every hatred is caused by love.”

― Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica

topic:love hate

“The third principle is the motive: for instance when a man is moved by one whom he loves, to do good to someone: for whatever we do or suffer for a friend is pleasant, because love is the principal cause of pleasure.”

― Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica

topic:love good pleasure

“But virtue's true reward is happiness itself, for which the virtuous work: whereas if they worked for honor, it would no longer be a virtue, but ambition.”

― Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica

topic:happiness virtue ambition

“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.”

― Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica

topic:truth faith

“Now, because we cannot know what God is, but rather what He is not, we have no means for considering how God is, but rather how He is not.”

― Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica

topic:knowledge God

“For the knowledge of God is to all creatures what the knowledge of the artificer is to things made by his art.”

― Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica

topic:knowledge

“I answer that, Man has free-will: otherwise counsels, exhortations, commands, prohibitions, rewards, and punishments would be in vain.”

― Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica

topic:freedom will

“Again, to make peace either in oneself or among others, shows a man to be a follower of God, Who is the God of unity and peace.”

― Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica

topic:God peace

“But when erring reason proposes something as being commanded by God, then to scorn the dictate of reason is to scorn the commandment of God.”

― Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica

topic:God reason

“Honor is due to God and to persons of great excellence as a sign of attestation of excellence already existing: not that honor makes them excellent.”

― Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica

topic:God

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