Thomas Aquinas

Whatever is received is received according to the nature of the recipient.

Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.

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.

The things that we love tell us what we are.

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

Angels need an assumed body, not for themselves, but on our account.

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.

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

To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.

A song is the exultation of the mind dwelling on eternal things, bursting forth in the voice.

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

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

If you are looking for the way by which you should go, take Christ, because he himself is the way.

If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.

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.

Nothing which implies contradiction falls under the omnipotence of God.

A man has free choice to the extent that he is rational

A man has free choice to the extent that he is rational.