Saint Thomas Aquinas

To love is to will the good of the other.

It is on account neither of God’s weakness nor ignorance that evil comes into the world, but rather it is due to the order of his wisdom and the greatness of his goodness that diverse grades of goodness occur in things, many of which would be lacking if no evil were permitted. Indeed, the good […]

As mariners are guided into port by the shining of a star, so Christians are guided to heaven by Mary.

We ought to cherish the body. Our body’s substance is not from an evil principle, as the Manicheans imagine, but from God. And therefore, we ought to cherish the body by the friendship of love, by which we love God. 

It is on account neither of God’s weakness nor ignorance that evil comes into the world, but rather it is due to the order of his wisdom and the greatness of his goodness that diverse grades of goodness occur in things, many of which would be lacking if no evil were permitted. Indeed, the good […]

It must be said that charity can, in no way, exist along with mortal sin. 

The highest perfection of human life consists in the mind of man being detached from care, for the sake of God.