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.

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.

Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.

Happiness is secured through virtue it is a good attained by man's own will.

Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand.

Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.

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.

Wonder is the desire for knowledge.

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.

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.