Quotes about Theology

If thou knewest the whole Bible, and the sayings of all the philosophers, what should all this profit thee without the love and grace of God?

A thing is lovable according as it is good. But God is infinite good. Therefore He is infinitely lovable.

All men are equal in nature, and also in original sin. It is in the merits and demerits of their actions that they differ.

Man is closer to God according to his existence in grace than he is according to his existence in nature.

God is not related to creatures as though belonging to a different "genus," but as transcending every "genus," and as the principle of all "genera."

Anger and the like are attributed to God on account of a similitude of effect. Thus, because to punish is properly the act of an angry man, God's punishment is metaphorically spoken of as His anger.

Charity is not a potency of the soul, because if it were it would be natural. Nor is it a passion, because it is not in a sensitive potency in which are all passions. Nor is it a habit, because a habit is removed with difficulty; charity, however, is easily lost through one act of mortal sin. Therefore charity is not something created in the soul.

There must be must be a first mover existing above all — and this we call God.

The splendor of a soul in grace is so seductive that it surpasses the beauty of all created things.

Even though the natural light of the human mind is inadequate to make known what is revealed by faith, nevertheless what is divinely taught to us by faith cannot be contrary to what we are endowed with by nature. One or the other would have to be false, and since we have both of them from God, he would be the cause of our error, which is impossible.

Reason in man is rather like God in the world.

Angels need an assumed body, not for themselves, but on our account.