Thomas Aquinas Quote

If all evil were prevented, much good would be absent from the universe. A lion would cease to live, if there were no slaying of animals; and there would be no patience of martyrs if there were no tyrannical persecution.

Summa Theologicae (c.1265) pt. 1, qu. 22, art. 2 (translated by English Dominican Fathers)

If all evil were prevented, much good would be absent from the universe. A lion would cease to live, if there were no slaying of animals; and there...

If all evil were prevented, much good would be absent from the universe. A lion would cease to live, if there were no slaying of animals; and there...

If all evil were prevented, much good would be absent from the universe. A lion would cease to live, if there were no slaying of animals; and there...

If all evil were prevented, much good would be absent from the universe. A lion would cease to live, if there were no slaying of animals; and there...