Theology By Thomas Aquinas Quotes

#1. Theology is taught by God, teaches God, and leads to God.

Thomas Aquinas

#2. The most blessed result of prayer would be to rise thinking "But I never knew before. I never dreamed ... " I suppose it was at such a moment that Thomas Aquinas said of all his own theology, "It reminds me of straw.

C.S. Lewis

#3. The study of truth requires a considerable effort - which is why few are willing to undertake it out of love of knowledge - despite the fact that God has implanted a natural appetite for such knowledge in the minds of men.

Thomas Aquinas

#4. Here (in Thomas Aquinas) is the mind that prepared the way for the scientific and industrial revolutions. Here is the mind that was Catholic enough to embrace any good idea, from wherever it came.

John Mark Reynolds

#5. If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty, you have no brain.

Winston Churchill

#6. If the work is worthwhile, then whether we can complete it or not, it's worth making the attempt. That's why courage is important.

Dalai Lama

#7. Our heavenly Father's arms are gentle, but strong enough to carry us and all of our burdens. - Brad Dixon

Gary Chapman

#8. For me, personally, the point of writing is to connect me to this world, to my fellow humans. We are all miles apart. We have no real means of connecting except via language. And the deepest form of language is storytelling.

Matt Haig

#9. Nobody, I believe, will deny, that we are to form our judgment of the true nature of the human mind, not from sloth and stupidity of the most degenerate and vilest of men, but from the sentiments and fervent desires of the best and wisest of the species.

Robert B. Leighton

#10. The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What's left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars.

Bertolt Brecht

#11. Distance does not define your destination; it is defined by your thoughts.

Debasish Mridha

#12. Knowledge depends on the mode of the knower; for what is known is in the knower according to the measure of his mode

Thomas Aquinas

#13. Simply adored Timothy Schaffert's The Coffins of Little Hope: the voice of Essie, the narrator, is terrific & the last line blew me away.

Nancy Pearl