Thomas Aquinas Reason Quotations

If forgers and malefactors are put to death by the secular power, there is much more reason for excommunicating and even putting to death one convicted of heresy.

Law is nothing other than a certain ordinance of reason for the common good, promulgated by the person who has the care of the community.

Human salvation demands the divine disclosure of truths surpassing reason.

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

It would be superfluous to receive by faith, things that can be known by natural reason

To disparage the dictate of reason is equivalent to contemning the command of God.

Art is right reason in the doing of work.

The truth of the Christian faith surpasses the capacity of reason.

God destines us for an end beyond the grasp of reason.

A man should remind himself that an object of faith is not scientifically demonstrable, lest presuming to demonstrate what is of faith, he should produce inconclusive reasons and offer occasion for unbelievers to scoff at a faith based on such ground.