Thomas Aquinas Catholic Quotations

Good can exist without evil, whereas evil cannot exist without good.

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.

Three conditions are necessary for Penance: contrition, which is sorrow for sin, together with a purpose of amendment; confession of sins without any omission; and satisfaction by means of good works.

If, then, you are looking for the way by which you should go, take Christ, because He Himself is the way.

Most men seem to live according to sense rather than reason.

Hold firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this, and you dissolve the unity of the Church.

To convert somebody go and take them by the hand and guide them.

It is unlawful to add anything to the words of Holy Scripture regarding the sense.

The apostles and their successors are God's vicars in governing the Church which is built on faith and the sacraments of faith. Wherefore, just as they may not institute another Church, so neither may they deliver another faith, nor institute other sacraments.

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.

There being an imminent danger for the faith, prelates must be questioned, even publicly, by their subjects.

In the realm of evil thoughts none induces to sin as much as do thoughts that concern the pleasure of the flesh.

What does it take to become a saint? Will it.

Believing is an act of the intellect assenting to the divine truth by command of the will moved by God through grace.