Aeterni Patris Quotes

“it is the glory of philosophy to be esteemed as the bulwark of faith and the strong defense of religion.”
― Pope Leo XIII, AETERNI PATRIS On The Restoration Of Christian Philosophy

“From a mass of conclusions men often come to wavering and doubt; and who knows not how easily the mind slips from doubt to error?”
― Pope Leo XIII, AETERNI PATRIS On The Restoration Of Christian Philosophy

“Among the Scholastic Doctors, the chief and master of all towers Thomas Aquinas, who, as Cajetan observes, because "he most venerated the ancient Doctors of the Church, in a certain way seems to have inherited the intellect of all." The doctrines of those illustrious men, like the scattered members of a body, Thomas collected together and cemented, distributed in wonderful order, and so increased with important additions that he is rightly and deservedly esteemed the special bulwark and glory of the Catholic faith. With his spirit at once humble and swift, his memory ready and tenacious, his life spotless throughout, a lover of truth for its own sake, richly endowed with human and divine science, like the sun he heated the world with the warmth of his virtues and filled it with the splendor of his teaching.”
― Pope Leo XIII, Aeterni Patris