1. “One cannot use an evil action with reference to a good intention.” – Thomas Aquinas
2. “He who is dying of hunger must be fed rather than taught.” – Thomas Aquinas
3. “Anything done against faith or conscience is sinful.” – Thomas Aquinas
4. “God’s precepts are light to the loving, heavy to the fearful.” – Thomas Aquinas
5. “Angels need an assumed body, not for themselves, but on our account.” – Thomas Aquinas
6. “In deliberation we may hesitate; but a deliberated act must be performed swiftly.” – Thomas Aquinas
7. “There is within every soul a thirst for happiness and meaning.” – Thomas Aquinas
8. “There can be no joy in living without joy in work.” – Thomas Aquinas
9. “Nothing which implies contradiction falls under the omnipotence of God.” – Thomas Aquinas
10. “A song is the exultation of the mind dwelling on eternal things, bursting forth in the voice.” – Thomas Aquinas
11. “We should love others truly, for their own sakes rather than our own.” – Thomas Aquinas
12. “Beware of the person of one book.” – Thomas Aquinas
13. “He who is not angry when there is just cause for anger is immoral. Why? Because anger looks to the good of justice. And if you can live amid injustice without anger, you are immoral as well as unjust.” – Thomas Aquinas
14. “Humility is the mark of a genuine disciple.” – Thomas Aquinas
15. “Mercy without justice is the mother of dissolution; justice without mercy is cruelty.” – Thomas Aquinas
16. “Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do.” – Thomas Aquinas
17. “All men are equal in nature, and also in original sin. It is in the merits and demerits of their actions that they differ.” – Thomas Aquinas
18. “The Study of philosophy is not that we may know what men have thought, but what the truth of things is.” – Thomas Aquinas
19. “The existence of a prime mover- nothing can move itself; there must be a first mover. The first mover is called God.” – Thomas Aquinas
20. “Man is closer to God according to his existence in grace than he is according to his existence in nature.” – Thomas Aquinas
21. “God has need for our worship. It is we who need to show our gratitude for what we have received.” – Thomas Aquinas
22. “Baptism is the door of the spiritual life and the gateway to the sacraments.” – Thomas Aquinas
23. “The human mind may perceive truth only through thinking, as is clear from Augustine.” – Thomas Aquinas
24. “Law; an ordinance of reason for the common good, made by him who has care of the community.” – Thomas Aquinas
25. “Far graver is it to corrupt the faith that is the life of the soul than to counterfeit the money that sustains temporal life.” – Thomas Aquinas
26. “Faith presupposes natural knowledge, even as grace presupposes nature, and perfection supposes something that can be perfected.” – Thomas Aquinas
27. “Charity is the form, mover, mother and root of all the virtues.” – Thomas Aquinas
28. “To convert somebody go and take them by the hand and guide them.” – Thomas Aquinas
29. “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
30. “Every truth without exception- and whoever may utter it- is from the Holy Spirit.” – Thomas Aquinas
31. “The highest perfection of human life consists in the mind of man being detached from care, for the sake of God.” – Thomas Aquinas
32. “You change people by delight, by pleasure.” – Thomas Aquinas
33. “If you are looking for the way by which you should go, take Christ, because he himself is the way.” – Thomas Aquinas
34. “A scrap of knowledge about sublime things is worth more than any amount about trivialities.” – Thomas Aquinas
35. “First, I say that he draws near to those who make peace with him. For God is the One who brings about peace; and where else should peace dwell than in peace?” – Thomas Aquinas
36. “This Blood that but one drop of has the power to win all the world forgiveness of its world of sin.” – Thomas Aquinas
37. “Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.” – Thomas Aquinas
38. “When fear is excessive it can make many a man despair.” – Thomas Aquinas
39. “The times are never so bad that a good man cannot live in them.” – Thomas Aquinas
40. “It is requisite for the relaxation of the mind that we make use, from time to time, of playful deeds and jokes.” – Thomas Aquinas
41. “As mariners are guided into port by the shining of a star, so Christians are guided to heaven by Mary.” – Thomas Aquinas
42. “To disparage the dictate of reason is equivalent to contemning the command of God.” – Thomas Aquinas
43. “To virginity is awarded the tribute of the highest beauty.” – Thomas Aquinas
44. “Man can sin against nature in two ways. First, when he sins against his specific rational nature, acting contrary to reason. In this sense, we can say that every sin is a sin against man’s nature, because it is against man’s right reason…” – Thomas Aquinas
45. “All my words are but chaff next to the faith of a simple man.” – Thomas Aquinas
46. “Do not wish to jump immediately from the streams to the sea, because one has to go through easier things to the more difficult.” – Thomas Aquinas
47. “Grace does not destroy nature, it perfects it.” – Thomas Aquinas
48. “Concerning perfect blessedness which consists in a vision of God.” – Thomas Aquinas
49. “If someone knows from experience that daily Communion increases fervor without lessening reverence, then let him go every day. But if someone finds that reverence is lessened and devotion not much increased, then let him sometimes abstain, so as to draw near afterwards with better dispositions.” – Thomas Aquinas
50. “It is absurd and a detestable shame, that we should suffer those traditions to be changed which we have received from the fathers of old.” – Thomas Aquinas
51. “Mary means Star of the sea, for as mariners are guided to port by the ocean star, so Christians attain to glory through Mary’s maternal intercession.” – Thomas Aquinas
52. “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.” – Thomas Aquinas
53. “The Angel’s bread is made the Bread of man today.” – Thomas Aquinas
54. “Charity brings to life again those who are spiritually dead.” – Thomas Aquinas
55. “It would be superfluous to receive by faith, things that can be known by natural reason.” – Thomas Aquinas
56. “For in order that man may do well, whether in the works of the active life, or in those of the contemplative life, he needs the fellowship of friends.” – Thomas Aquinas
57. “Charity is love; not all love is charity.” – Thomas Aquinas
58. “God himself would not permit evil in this world if good did not come of it for the benefit and harmony of the universe.” – Thomas Aquinas
59. “We can open our hearts to God, but only with Divine help.” – Thomas Aquinas
60. “It is not theft, properly speaking, to take secretly and use another’s property in a case of extreme need: because that which he takes for the support of his life becomes his own property by reason of that need” – Thomas Aquinas
61. “In a false person, sacraments do not produce any effect.” – Thomas Aquinas
62. “Reason in man is rather like God in the world.” – Thomas Aquinas
63. “Whatever a man has in superabundance is owed, of natural right, to the poor for their sustenance.” – Thomas Aquinas
64. “The only-begotten Son of God, wanting to make us sharers in His divinity, assumed our nature, so that He, made man, might make men gods.” – Thomas Aquinas
65. “God answered the prayers of animals.” – Thomas Aquinas
66. “The greatest kindness one can render to any man consists in leading him from error to truth.” – Thomas Aquinas
67. “Pipes are not to be used for teaching, nor any artificial instruments, as the harp, or the like: but whatsoever will make the hearers good men.” – Thomas Aquinas
68. “Man has free choice, or otherwise counsels, exhortations, commands, prohibitions, rewards and punishments would be in vain. ” – Thomas Aquinas
69. “The truth of the Christian faith surpasses the capacity of reason.” – Thomas Aquinas
70. “The person who truly understands love could love anyone.” – Thomas Aquinas
71. “We are like children, who stand in need of masters to enlighten us and direct us; God has provided for this, by appointing his angels to be our teachers and guides.” – Thomas Aquinas
72. “Even as in heaven there will be most perfect charity, so in hell there will be the most perfect hate.” – Thomas Aquinas
73. “All the efforts of the human mind cannot exhaust the essence of a single fly.” – Thomas Aquinas
74. “A man does not always choose what his guardian angel intends.” – Thomas Aquinas
75. “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
76. “Every cell in us worships God.” – Thomas Aquinas
77. “For those with faith, no evidence is necessary; for those without it, no evidence will suffice.” – Thomas Aquinas
78. “Arrive at knowledge over small streamlets, and do not plunge immediately into the ocean, since progress must go from the easier to the more difficult.” – Thomas Aquinas
79. “There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.” – Thomas Aquinas
80. “The end of every maker is himself.” – Thomas Aquinas
81. “To love God is something greater than to know Him.” – Thomas Aquinas
82. “The blessed in the kingdom of heaven will see the punishments of the damned, in order that their bliss be more delightful for them.” – Thomas Aquinas
83. “Wonder is the desire for knowledge.” – Thomas Aquinas
84. “Jesus Lord, kind Pelican, Cleanse my filth with Thy blood, One drop of which can save The whole world from all its sin.” – Thomas Aquinas
85. “The happy man in this life needs friends.” – Thomas Aquinas
86. “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
87. “Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.” – Thomas Aquinas
88. “Law has the power to compel: indeed, the ability to enforce is a condition of the ability to command.” – Thomas Aquinas
89. “To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.” – Thomas Aquinas
90. “The splendor of a soul in grace is so seductive that it surpasses the beauty of all created things.” – Thomas Aquinas
91. “It has become the fashion to talk about Mysticism, even to pose as Mystics, and – need it be said? – those who talk the most on such subjects are those who know the least.” – Thomas Aquinas
92. “There is nothing in your mind which wasn’t experienced before hand.” – Thomas Aquinas
93. “There would not be a perfect likeness of God in the universe if all things were of one grade of being.” – Thomas Aquinas
94. “When the devil is called the god of this world, it is not because he made it, but because we serve him with our worldliness.” – Thomas Aquinas
95. “The Stone is one, the Medicine is one, to which we add nothing, only in the preparation removing superfluities.” – Thomas Aquinas
96. “Of all the pursuits open to men, the search for wisdom is most perfect, more sublime, more profitable, and more full of joy.” – Thomas Aquinas
97. “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
98. “Christ was either liar, lunatic, or Lord!” – Thomas Aquinas
99. “There is, therefore, a more perfect intellectual life in the angels. In them the intellect does not proceed to self-knowledge from anything exterior, but knows itself through itself…” – Thomas Aquinas
100. “For although the will cannot be inwardly moved by any creature, yet it can be moved inwardly by God.” – Thomas Aquinas
101. “Most men seem to live according to sense rather than reason.” – Thomas Aquinas
102. “Believing is an act of the intellect assenting to the divine truth by command of the will moved by God through grace.” – Thomas Aquinas
103. “Charity, by which God and neighbor are loved, is the most perfect friendship.” – Thomas Aquinas
104. “So, to detract from the perfection of creatures is to detract from the perfection of divine power.” – Thomas Aquinas
105. “I receive Thee ransom of my soul. For love of Thee have I studied and kept vigil toiled preached and taught…” – Thomas Aquinas
106. “Don’t ask who said it? Ask what they said.” – Thomas Aquinas
107. “Now, nothing can be brought from potentiality to actual existence except through something actually existing.” – Thomas Aquinas
108. “If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.” – Thomas Aquinas
109. “The proper effect of the Eucharist is the transformation of man into God.” – Thomas Aquinas
110. “We should eliminate sin if we wish to eliminate the scourge of tyrants.” – Thomas Aquinas
111. “An act of love always tends towards two things; to the good that one wills, and to the person for whom one wills it.” – Thomas Aquinas
112. “Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder.” – Thomas Aquinas
113. “A man’s heart is right when he wills what God wills.” – Thomas Aquinas
114. “A man has free choice to the extent that he is rational.” – Thomas Aquinas
115. “Because we cannot know what God is, but only what He is not, we cannot consider how He is but only how He is not.” – Thomas Aquinas
116. “If, then, the final happiness of man does not consist in those exterior advantages which are called goods of fortune, nor in goods of the body, nor in goods of the soul in its sentient part, nor in the virtues of practical intellect, called art and prudence, it remains that the final happiness of man consists in the contemplation of truth.” – Thomas Aquinas
117. “It is only God who creates. Man merely rearranges.” – Thomas Aquinas
118. “Without sanctifying grace it is not possible to refrain long from mortal sin.” – Thomas Aquinas
119. “True peace consists in not separating ourselves from the will of God.” – Thomas Aquinas
120. “How can we live in harmony? First we need to know we are all madly in love with the same God.” – Thomas Aquinas
121. “If you want to be saved look the face of your Christ.” – Thomas Aquinas
122. “But man is freer than all the animals, on account of his free-will, with which he is endowed above all other animals.” – Thomas Aquinas
123. “Not everything that is more difficult is more meritorious.” – Thomas Aquinas
124. “It must be said that charity can, in no way, exist along with mortal sin.” – Thomas Aquinas
125. “Love follows knowledge.” – Thomas Aquinas
126. “Sin is a spiritual illness; thus sinners are in need of salvation.” – Thomas Aquinas
127. “A man should remind himself that an object of faith is not scientifically demonstrable, lest presuming to demonstrate what is of faith, he should produce inconclusive reasons and offer occasion for unbelievers to scoff at a faith based on such ground.” – Thomas Aquinas
128. “Not everyone who is enlightened by an angel knows that he is enlightened by him.” – Thomas Aquinas
129. “By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments.” – Thomas Aquinas
130. “I can write no more. All that I have written seems like straw.” – Thomas Aquinas
131. “Whatever is received into something is received according to the condition of the receiver.” – Thomas Aquinas
132. “Fear is such a powerful emotion for humans that when we allow it to take us over, it drives compassion right out of our hearts.” – Thomas Aquinas
133. “It is necessary for the perfection of human society that there should be men who devote their lives to contemplation.” – Thomas Aquinas
134. “Now it seems that everything in the world stems from sources other than God, since the products of nature have their source in nature; deliberate effects can be traced back to human reason or will as their source. There is no need then to assume that God exists.” – Thomas Aquinas
135. “Better to illuminate than merely to shine, to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate.” – Thomas Aquinas
136. “Now the maximum in any genus is the cause of all in that genus; as fire, which is the maximum heat, is the cause of all hot things. Therefore there must also be something which is to all beings the cause of their being, goodness, and every other perfection; and this we call God.” – Thomas Aquinas
137. “Whenever God wakes in us, our thinking becomes clear – nothing is missing.” – Thomas Aquinas
138. “Love is a binding force, by which another is joined to me and cherished by myself.” – Thomas Aquinas
139. “to make peace either in oneself or among others, shows a man to be a follower of God,” – Thomas Aquinas
140. “Now in matters of action the reason directs all things in view of the end:.” – Thomas Aquinas
141. “Miracles are signs not to them that believe, but to them that believe not.” – Thomas Aquinas
142. “If, then, you are looking for the way by which you should go, take Christ because He Himself is the way.” – Thomas Aquinas
143. “We must love them both, those whose opinions we share and those whose opinions we reject, for both have labored in the search for truth, and both have helped us in finding it.” – Thomas Aquinas
144. “To teach in order to lead others to faith is the task of every preacher and of each believer.” – Thomas Aquinas
145. “The world tempts us either by attaching us to it in prosperity, or by filling us with fear of adversity. But faith overcomes this in that we believe in a life to come better than this one, and hence we despise the riches of this world and we are not terrified in the face of adversity.” – Thomas Aquinas
146. “How is it they live in such harmony the billions of stars – when most men can barely go a minute without declaring war in their minds about someone they know.” – Thomas Aquinas
147. “Man should not consider his material possession his own, but as common to all, so as to share them without hesitation when others are in need.” – Thomas Aquinas
148. “A capacity as such is directed to an act. Wherefore we seek to know the nature of a capacity from the act to which it is directed, and consequently the nature of a capacity is diversified as the nature of the act is diversified.” – Thomas Aquinas
149. “Grant me, O Lord my God, a mind to know you, a heart to seek you, wisdom to find you, conduct pleasing to you, faithful perseverance in waiting for you, and a hope of finally embracing you. Amen.” – Thomas Aquinas
150. “Nothing created has ever been able to fill the heart of man. God alone can fill it infinitely.” – Thomas Aquinas
151. “Grace renders us like God and a partaker of the divine nature.” – Thomas Aquinas
152. “Faith has to do with things that are not seen, and hope with things that are not in hand.” – Thomas Aquinas
153. “Justice is in subjects as well as in rulers.” – Thomas Aquinas
154. “To pretend angels do not exist because they are invisible is to believe we never sleep because we don’t see ourselves sleeping.” – Thomas Aquinas
155. “Gods are called many by the error of some who worshipped many deities, thinking as they did the planets and other stars were gods, and also the separate parts of the world.” – Thomas Aquinas
156. “Good can exist without evil, whereas evil cannot exist without good.” – Thomas Aquinas
157. “The things that we love tell us what we are.” – Thomas Aquinas
158. “If a man deliberately abstains from wine to such an extent that he does serious harm to his nature, he will not be free from blame.” – Thomas Aquinas
159. “In the end, we know God as unknown.” – Thomas Aquinas