Famous quotes containing the words aquinas, parish and/or church:
“Even if it is given that someone understands the name ‘God’ to signify what is said, namely, ‘that than which a greater cannot be conceived,’ it does not follow that what is signified by this name exists in the nature of things, but only that it exists in the apprehension of the understanding.”
—Thomas Aquinas (c. 1225–1274)
“My stardust melody, the memory of love’s refrain.”
—Mitchell Parish (1901–1993)
“What if the Church and the State
Are the mob that howls at the door!
Wine shall run thick to the end,
Bread taste sour.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)