St. Thomas Aquinas

To live well is to work well.

Hence, whatever certain people have in superabundance is due, by natural law, to the purpose of succoring the poor.

Give us, O Lord, steadfast hearts, which no unworthy thought can drag downward, unconquered hearts, which no tribulation can wear out, upright hearts, which no unworthy purpose may tempt aside. Bestow...

Creator of all things, true source of light and wisdom, lofty origin of all being, graciously let a ray of your brilliance penetrate into the darkness of our understanding and take from us the doub...

Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.

We can't have full knowledge all at once. We must start by believing; then afterwards we may be led on to master the evidence for ourselves.

To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.

This is the ultimate in human knowledge of God: to know that we do not know Him.

Wonder is the desire for knowledge.

The principal act of courage is to endure and withstand dangers doggedly rather than to attack them.

The virtue of courage is about the fear of dangers of death.

O God, grant that whatever good things I have, I may share generously with those who have not, and whatever good things I do not have, I may request humbly from those who do.

Human salvation demands the divine disclosure of truths surpassing reason.

For in order that man may do well, whether in the works of the active life, or in those of the contemplative life, he needs the fellowship of friends.

Where love is, there is the eye.

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

Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder.

Man in offering sacrifices avowed that God was the first principle of the world’s creation and the last end to whom all must be related.

To love is to will the good of another. .

It is requisite for the relaxation of the mind that we make use, from time to time, of playful deeds and jokes.