Thomas Aquinas Doe Quotations

Future contingents cannot be certain to us, because we know them as such. They can be certain only to God whose understanding is in eternity above time. Just as a man going along a road does not see those who come after him; but the man who sees the whole road from a height sees all those who are going along the road at the same time.

He who achieves power by violence does not truly become lord or master.

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

Grace does not destroy nature, it perfects it.

Affirmative precepts are distinguished from negative whenever one is not comprised in the other; thus, that of honoring parents does not comprise that of not killing, and vice versa.

A man does not always choose what his guardian angel intends.

He who is drawn to something desirable does not desire to have it as a thought but as a thing.

For loving draws us more to things than knowing does, since good is found by going to the thing, whereas the true is found when the thing comes to us.

Faith does not quench desire, but inflames it.

He who does not embrace the teaching of the Church does not have the habit of faith.

Whatever was in the human nature of Christ was moved at the bidding of the divine will; yet it does not follow that in Christ there was no movement of the will proper to human nature, for the good wills of other saints are moved by God's will... For although the will cannot be inwardly moved by any creature, yet it can be moved inwardly by God.

The fire of hell is called eternal, only because it never ends. Still, there is change in the pains of the lost...Hence in hell true eternity does not exist, but rather time.