Do not wish to jump immediately from the streams to the sea, because one has to go through easier things to the more difficult.
Thomas AquinasThe Cross to me is certain salvation. The Cross is that which I ever adore. The Cross of the Lord is with me. The Cross is my refuge.
Thomas AquinasThe splendor of a soul in grace is so seductive that it surpasses the beauty of all created things.
Thomas AquinasGiven the sin of impiety through which they [the Romans] sinned against the divine nature [by idolatry], the punishment that led them to sin against their own nature followed.... I say, therefore, that since they changed into lies [by idolatry] the truth about God, He brought them to ignominious passions, that is, to sins against nature; not that God led them to evil, but only that he abandoned them to evil.
Thomas Aquinas