Thomas Aquinas Quotes & Sayings (Page 7)

“It is possible to demonstrate God's existence, although not a priori, yet a posteriori from some work of His more surely known to us.”

“God should not be called an individual substance, since the principal of individuation is matter.”

“In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority of the sovereign. Secondly, a just cause. Thirdly, a rightful intention.”

“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.”

“The knowledge of God is the cause of things. For the knowledge of God is to all creatures what the knowledge of the artificer is to things made by his art.”

“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.”

“All that is true, by whomsoever it has been said has its origin in the Spirit.”