“To live well is to work well, to show a good activity.”
Work
“Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand.”
FaithAll Quotes by Thomas Aquinas
“How can we live in harmony? First we need to know we are all madly in love with the same God.”
God“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.”
Men“Whatever is received is received according to the nature of the recipient.”
Nature“Wonder is the desire for knowledge.”
Knowledge“Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand.”
Faith“There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.”
Friendship“The principal act of courage is to endure and withstand dangers doggedly rather than to attack them.”
Courage“It is possible to demonstrate God's existence, although not a priori, yet a posteriori from some work of His more surely known to us.”
Work“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.”
Nature“To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.”
Faith“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.”
Art“If, then, you are looking for the way by which you should go, take Christ, because He Himself is the way.”
Religion“Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.”
Knowledge“Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.”
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.”
Faith“We can't have full knowledge all at once. We must start by believing then afterwards we may be led on to master the evidence for ourselves.”
Knowledge“Now this relaxation of the mind from work consists on playful words or deeds. Therefore it becomes a wise and virtuous man to have recourse to such things at times.”
Work“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.”
Patience“Happiness is secured through virtue it is a good attained by man's own will.”
Happiness