Great Orators of the Order of Friars Preachers

"A man who governs his passions is master of the world. We must either rule them, or be ruled by them." Saint Dominic

Masters of Western Theology

[I]f some things were made by the Father, and some by the Son, then all things were not made by the Father, nor all things by the Son; but if all things were made by the Father, and all things by the Son, then the same things were made by the Father and by the Son. The Son, therefore, is equal with the Father, and the working of the Father and the Son is indivisible. Because if the Father made even the Son, whom certainly the Son Himself did not make, then all things were not made by the Son; but all things were made by the Son: therefore He Himself was not made, that with the Father He might make all things that were made.

Saint Augustine

De Trinitate

[S]ince it is established that his [God's] Word is consubstantial with him, and perfectly like him, it necessarily follows that all things that exist in him exist also, and in the same way, in his Word. Whatever has been created, then, whether alive or not alive, or howsoever it exists in itself, is very life and truth in him.

But, since knowing is the same to the supreme Spirit as conceiving or expressing, he must know all things that he knows in the same way in which he expresses or conceives of them. Therefore, just as all things are in his Word life and truth, so are they in his knowledge.

Saint Anselm

Monologium

[S]omething is called "holy" in two ways. In one way, simply and per se, such as that which is the subject of holiness, as a man is called holy. In another way, secondarily and in a certain respect, because it is ordered to this holiness, whether as having the power of sanctifying (as chrism is called holy), or being in any other way deputed to something holy (as an altar is holy). And so, those things by which something is made holy in the first way are called "sacraments" simply, whereas those by which something is made holy in the second way are not called sacraments, but rather "sacramentals."

Saint Thomas Aquinas

Scriptum sup. Sententiis

[W]omen reflect God not only as mothering, nurturing, and compassionate, although certainly that, but also as powerful, taking initiative, creating-redeeming-saving, wrathful against injustice, in solidarity with the poor, struggling against and sometimes victorious over the powers of this world. Reorienting the imagination at a basic level, these female images open up insight into the maternal passion, fierce protectiveness, zeal for justice, healing power, inclusive hospitality, liberating will, and nonhierarchical, all-pervading relationality that characterize divine love. In the process, they carry back to women the stamp of divine likeness.

Elizabeth A. Johnson

Quest for the Living God
(Chapter 5, "God acting womanish", p. 109)*

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[* Book considered by U.S. Catholic Bishops as "inadequate" - these thundering words of condemnation have led Sr. Johnson to be honored by a "Progressive" periodical as "Person of the Year". Johnson remains a "Distinguished Professor of Theology" at Fordham University and is in full communion with the Holy See.]

Great Orators of the Order of Friars Preachers

"A man who governs his passions is master of the world. We must either rule them, or be ruled by them."

Saint Dominic

"How ... strongly should we be drawn to Christ if we find our pleasure in truth, happiness, justice, eternal life: all of which Christ is!"

Saint Thomas Aquinas

"Regard yourself as more vile and miserable in the sight of God because of your faults than any sinner whatsoever, no matter what his sins."

Saint Vincent Ferrer

"The Glorious Virgin Mary...by the blessed fruit of her womb has saved a world condemned by the fall of our first parents."

Pope Saint Pius V

"God is the proper name of Truth, as Truth is the abstract name of God."

Lacordaire

"We must accompany [gay people] as they discern what this means, letting our images be stretched open... This means watching 'Brokeback Mountain,' reading gay novels, living with our gay friends and listening with them as they listen to the Lord."

Timothy Radcliffe