Saint Thomas Aquinas
Wonder is the desire for knowledge.
Whatever is received is received according to the nature of the recipient.
Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.
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.
To live well is to work well, to show a good activity.
To convert somebody go and take them by the hand and guide them.
To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin.
Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do.
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.
Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.
This Blood that but one drop of has the power to win. All the world forgiveness of its world of sin.
There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.
There is but one Church in which men find salvation, just as outside the ark of Noah it was not possible for anyone to be saved.
There are wars where no one marches with a flag, though that does not keep casualties from mounting. Our hearts irrigate this earth. We are fields before each other.
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.
The things that we love tell us what we are.
The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work, but in the excellence of the work he produces.
The principal act of courage is to endure and withstand dangers doggedly rather than to attack them.
The minister to whom confession is made is the delegate of Christ, Who is the Judge of the living and the dead.