Quotes about Spirituality
The highest perfection of human life consists in the mind of man being detached from care, for the sake of God.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
When the devil is called the God of this world, it is not because he made it, but because we serve him with our worldliness.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
See to whom Jesus is drawing near, three kinds of people: to those who make peace with him, to those who are devoted to God, and to those who are kind to their neighbors.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
How can we live in harmony? First we need to know we are all madly in love with the same God.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
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.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Grant me, O Lord my God, a mind to know you, a heart to seek you, wisdom to find you, conduct pleasing to you, faithful perseverance in waiting for you, and a hope of finally embracing you. Amen.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
It is necessary for the perfection of human society that there should be men who devote their lives to contemplation.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
A song is the exultation of the mind dwelling on eternal things, bursting forth in the voice.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
If you are looking for the way by which you should go, take Christ, because he himself is the way.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
It must be said that charity can, in no way, exist along with mortal sin.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
to make peace either in oneself or among others, shows a man to be a follower of God,
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.
— St. Thomas Aquinas