Home Saints Core Works Quotes Sacred Words Theology About
Home Saints Core Works Quotes Sacred Words Theology About
Christ Pantocrator icon

Meaning and context of this quote

“The things that we love tell us what we are.”

from Attributed — Thomas Aquinas

All Quotes 🔗Copy link

This passage from Attributed reflects Thomas Aquinas’s teaching on love.

More quotes from Thomas Aquinas

  • Thomas Aquinas: “To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without fait…”
  • Thomas Aquinas: “Everything I have written seems like straw compared to what has now be…”
  • Thomas Aquinas: “Grace does not destroy nature but perfects it.”
  • Thomas Aquinas: “The soul is like a field; the seed of divine knowledge is within it, b…”
  • Thomas Aquinas: “God is sheer being, subsisting of itself. He is to all other beings th…”
← Previous Next →