Fear is such a powerful emotion for humans that when we allow it to take us over, it drives compassion right out of our hearts.
THOMAS AQUINASFaith has to do with things that are not seen, and hope with things that are not in hand.
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Better to illuminate than merely to shine to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate.
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Nothing created has ever been able to fill the heart of man. God alone can fill it infinitely.
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The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false.
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I would rather feel compassion than know the meaning of it. I would hope to act with compassion without thinking of personal gain.
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Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder.
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Faith has to do with things that are not seen, and hope with things that are not in hand.
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How is it they live in such harmony, the billions of stars, when most men can barely go a minute without declaring war in their minds?
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Beware the man of a single book.
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When the devil is called god of this world, it is not because he made it, but because we serve him with our worldiness.
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A mans heart is right when he wills that god wills.
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We set forth our petitions before god, not in order to make known to him our needs and desires, but rather so that we ourselves may realize that in the things it is necessary to turn to god for help.
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Our aspect of neighborly love is that we must not merely will our neighbors good, but actually work to bring it about.
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God himself would not permit evil in this world if good did not come of it for the benefit and harmony of the universe.
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The greatest kindness one can render to any man consists in leading him from error to truth.
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The Study of philosophy is not that we may know what men have thought, but what the truth of things is.
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