Thomas Aquinas quotes and sayings
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.
Thomas Aquinas quotes
- Good can exist without evil, whereas evil cannot exist without good.
- Hold firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this, and you dissolve the unity of the Church.
- Love is a binding force, by which another is joined to me and cherished by myself.
- Man should not consider his material possession his own, but as common to all, so as to share them without hesitation when others are in need.
- 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.
- By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments.
- Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in the circumstances confronting him.
- As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active power of the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex; while the production of a woman comes from defect in the active power.
- Most men seem to live according to sense rather than reason.
- 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.