Summa Theologica Quotes

“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

“fear of God is not the beginning of wisdom.”

― Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica

topic:God fear wisdom

“Therefore it is necessary to arrive at a first mover, put in motion by no other; and this everyone understands to be God.”

― Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica

topic:God

“The power of an angel is not so limited as is the power of the soul.”

― Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica

topic:power soul

“The science of mathematics treats its object as though it were something abstracted mentally, whereas it is not abstract in reality.”

― Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica

topic:reality

“Now in matters of action the reason directs all things in view of the end: wherefore the higher the end which attaches to sins in human acts, the graver the sin.”

― Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica

topic:reason sin

“The theologian considers sin chiefly as an offense against God; and the moral philosopher, as something contrary to reason.”

― Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica

topic:reason philosophy sin

“Thus from the four preceding articles, the definition of law may be gathered; and it is nothing else than an ordinance of reason for the common good, made by him who has care of the community, and promulgated.”

― Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica

topic:reason law care

“Further, nothing, except sin, is contrary to an act of virtue. But war is contrary to peace. Therefore war is always a sin.”

― Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica

topic:war virtue sin

“Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them; for the temperate man desires as he ought to desire, and what he ought to desire, as stated in Ethic.”

― Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica

topic:virtue desire

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