Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice. -Thomas Aquinas Friendship
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 Truth
The knowledge of God is the cause of things. For the knowledge of God is to all creatures what the knowledge of the artificer is to things made by his art. -Thomas Aquinas Knowledge
Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious. -Thomas Aquinas Friendship
If, then, you are looking for the way by which you should go, take Christ, because He Himself is the way. -Thomas Aquinas Religion
It is clear that he does not pray, who, far from uplifting himself to God, requires that God shall lower Himself to him, and who resorts to prayer not to stir the man in us to will what God wills, but only to persuade God to will what the man in us wills. -Thomas Aquinas God
Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand. -Thomas Aquinas Faith
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
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 Patience
If forgers and malefactors are put to death by the secular power, there is much more reason for excommunicating and even putting to death one convicted of heresy. -Thomas Aquinas Power
As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active power of the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex; while the production of a woman comes from defect in the active power. -Thomas Aquinas Nature
If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever. -Thomas Aquinas Leadership
Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand. -Thomas Aquinas Hope
As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active power of the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex; while the production of a woman comes from defect in the active power. -Thomas Aquinas Power
That the saints may enjoy their beatitude and the grace of God more abundantly they are permitted to see the punishment of the damned in hell. -Thomas Aquinas God
