Quote

The Angel's bread is made the Bread of man today.

Thomas Aquinas

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Thomas Aquinas
Age: 49 †
Born: 1225
Born: February 1
Died: 1274
Died: March 14
Dominican Friar
Philosopher
Priest
Professor
Roman Catholic Priest
Theologian
Saint Thomas Aquinas
Saint Thomas
Tommaso d'Aquino
Thomas of Aquino
St Thomas Aquinas
St. Thomas Aquinas
Today
Made
Men
Bread
Angel

More quotes by Thomas Aquinas

Image
Devotion is a certain act of the will by which man gives himself promptly to divine service.
Thomas Aquinas
Image
It is not possible to be ignorant of the end of things if we know their beginning.
Thomas Aquinas
Image
Every truth without exception- and whoever may utter it- is from the Holy Spirit.
Thomas Aquinas
Image
It is necessary to posit something which is necessary of itself, and has no cause of its necessity outside of itself but is the cause of necessity in other things. And all people call this thing God.
Thomas Aquinas
Image
The soul is like an uninhabited world that comes to life only when God lays His head against us.
Thomas Aquinas
Image
The only-begotten Son of God, wanting to make us sharers in His divinity, assumed our nature, so that He, made man, might make men gods.
Thomas Aquinas
Image
Now it seems that everything in the world stems from sources other than God, since the products of nature have their source in nature deliberate effects can be traced back to human reason or will as their source. There is no need then to assume that God exists.
Thomas Aquinas
Image
Charity brings to life again those who are spiritually dead.
Thomas Aquinas
Image
If someone knows from experience that daily Communion increases fervor without lessening reverence, then let him go every day. But if someone finds that reverence is lessened and devotion not much increased, then let him sometimes abstain, so as to draw near afterwards with better dispositions.
Thomas Aquinas
Image
Peace is the work of justice indirectly, in so far as justice removes the obstacles to peace but it is the work of charity (love) directly, since charity, according to its very notion, causes peace.
Thomas Aquinas
Image
Charity is not a potency of the soul, because if it were it would be natural. Nor is it a passion, because it is not in a sensitive potency in which are all passions. Nor is it a habit, because a habit is removed with difficulty charity, however, is easily lost through one act of mortal sin. Therefore charity is not something created in the soul.
Thomas Aquinas
Image
Distinctions drawn by the mind are not necessarily equivalent to distinctions in reality.
Thomas Aquinas
Image
If, then, you are looking for the way by which you should go, take Christ, because He Himself is the way.
Thomas Aquinas
Image
Wonder is the desire of knowledge.
Thomas Aquinas
Image
The Cross to me is certain salvation. The Cross is that which I ever adore. The Cross of the Lord is with me. The Cross is my refuge.
Thomas Aquinas
Image
The theologian considers sin mainly as an offence against God the moral philosopher as contrary to reasonableness.
Thomas Aquinas
Image
All the efforts of the human mind cannot exhaust the essence of a single fly.
Thomas Aquinas
Image
It would seem that zeal is not an effect of love. For zeal is a beginning of contention.
Thomas Aquinas
Image
Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of good wine.
Thomas Aquinas
Image
The minister to whom confession is made is the delegate of Christ, Who is the Judge of the living and the dead.
Thomas Aquinas