Thomas Aquinas Perfect Quotations

The perfection of the effect demonstrates the perfection of the cause, for a greater power brings about a more perfect effect. But God is the most perfect agent. Therefore, things created by Him obtain perfection from Him. So, to detract from the perfection of creatures is to detract from the perfection of divine power.

There is, therefore, a more perfect intellectual life in the angels. In them the intellect does not proceed to self-knowledge from anything exterior, but knows itself through itself....

The servants of God...whether provoked by word or work, by keeping themselves tranquil and peaceful, evince a perfect nobleness of soul.

Charity, by which God and neighbor are loved, is the most perfect friendship.

Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them.

As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active power of the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex; while the production of a woman comes from defect in the active power.

It is necessary for the perfection of human society that there should be men who devote their lives to contemplation.

So, to detract from the perfection of creatures is to detract from the perfection of divine power.

Concerning perfect blessedness which consists in a vision of God.

There would not be a perfect likeness of God in the universe if all things were of one grade of being.

To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin.

Of all the pursuits open to men, the search for wisdom is most perfect, more sublime, more profitable, and more full of joy.

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

Even as in heaven there will be most perfect charity, so in hell there will be the most perfect hate.