Bonaventure Quotes on Virtue
Bonaventure was a 13th-century Italian Franciscan friar, theologian, philosopher, and Cardinal, regarded as one of the most important medieval Christian thinkers alongside his contemporary Thomas Aquinas. This page collects quotes attributed to Bonaventure on the topic of virtue, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Bonaventure:
“The light of natural knowledge is in vain if our affections are not rightly ordered.”
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Attributed to Bonaventure:
“Christ is our way to ascend; Christ is the door, the ladder, the vehicle.”
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“But the soul cannot have any virtue if God is not loved with all the heart; for from that love flows the fulness of all grace, and without it no grace can flow into the soul, nor can it abide in it.”
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“The virtue of gratitude is extremely commendable and pleasing in the sight of God, as its opposite is a detestable vice before him. Of which subject, thus speaks St. Bernard: Learn to be thankful for every grace received. Consider diligently the favors heaped upon you, that no gift of God be defrauded of the due return of gratitude and thanksgiving you ought to make, whether the gift be great, middling, or little.”
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