Quotes About St Thomas Aquinas

#1. To put it in the terms of St. Thomas Aquinas: An unjust law is a human law that is not rooted in eternal law and natural law.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#2. St. Thomas Aquinas taught that water has been a natural sacrament since the dawn of creation. In the age of nature - from Adam through the patriarchs - water refreshed and cleansed humankind.

Scott Hahn

#3. University of Chicago is a Baptist school, where atheist professors teach Jewish students about St. Thomas Aquinas.

Martin Gardner

#4. The first-cause and prime-mover argument, brilliantly proffered by St. Thomas Aquinas in the fourteenth century (and brilliantly refuted by David Hume in the eighteenth century), is easily turned aside with just one more question: Who or what caused and moved God?

Michael Shermer

#5. Leave to every one the care of what belongs to him, and disturb not thyself with what is said or done in the world. - ST. THOMAS AQUINAS.

Various

#6. The 'words' of Augustine, Origen, Clement of Alexandria, St. John of Damascus, St. Thomas Aquinas, et al, may not have carried the weight of Canon, however they were neither paper-like nor mere 'pellets'."

~R. Alan Woods [2012]

R. Alan Woods

#7. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas).

Sam Harris

#8. Tell me, son... have you ever been intimidated by anyone?'
'Oh yes,' said Thomas.
'I don't believe it. By whom?'
'By Our Lord... on the altar.

Louis De Wohl

#9. So, make a real effort to avoid getting sucked into all the expensive lifestyle habits of typical Americans. Because if you do that, then people with the money will dictate what you do with your life.

Richard Stallman

#10. Getting up early in the morning to fix my eyes on Jesus through prayer and reading His Word is like setting

Anne Graham Lotz

#11. The times are never so bad that a good man cannot live in them

St. Thomas Aquinas

#12. Tyler's lips curved in a smile and Haris understood he couldn't keep a guy like him. Tyler was wild and beautiful, and he'd get bored and want to leave, unless Haris made him an offer he couldn't refuse.

Barbara Elsborg

#13. But in this life on earth we have not only the fear but the certainty that we shall lose it. For one day we must die. Therefore true happiness... lasting, everlasting happiness cannot be our lot on earth. Nor could it be otherwise. For everlasting happiness is only another name for God.

Louis De Wohl

#14. As soon as war is declared it will be impossible to hold the poets back. Rhyme is still the most effective drum.

Jean Giraudoux

#15. What do you call it when a straight person comes out? ... A conversation

Bill Konigsberg

#16. If you want to be saved look the face of your Christ.

St. Thomas Aquinas

#17. Anybody can be with you when you're right, but only friends are with you when you mess up.

Gloria Steinem

#18. The happy life does not mean loving what we possess, but possessing what we love. Possession of the beloved, St. Thomas holds, takes place in an act of cognition, in seeing, in intuition, in contemplation.

Josef Pieper

#19. To love is to will the good of another.

St. Thomas Aquinas

#20. But a dauntless faith believes

Thomas Aquinas

#21. Get some sleep, soldier boy.

Julie Kagawa

#22. If you want to be saved look at the face of your Christ.

St. Thomas Aquinas

#23. Self-compassion is like a muscle. The more we practice flexing it, especially when life doesn't go exactly according to plan (a frequent scenario for most of us), the stronger and more resilient our compassion muscle becomes.

Sharon Salzberg

#24. There is nothing to unify God and the soul but the Cross.

Louis De Wohl

#25. But I don't want to just believe it, I want it to be true.

Audrey Niffenegger