Grant me, O Lord my God, a mind to know you, a heart to seek you, wisdom to find you, conduct pleasing to you, faithful perseverance in waiting for you, and a hope of finally embracing you. Amen
THOMAS AQUINASIt is only god who creates. Man merely arranges.
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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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To love is to will the good of the other.
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Beware the man of a single book.
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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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Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become addicted to carnal pleasures.
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He who is not angry when there is just cause for anger is immoral. Why? because anger looks to the good of justice. And if you could live amid injustice without anger, you are immoral as well as unjust.
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The soul is uninhabited world that only comes to life when god lays his head against us.
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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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There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship
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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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To pretend angels do not exist because they are invisible is to believe we never sleep because we don’t see ourselves sleeping.
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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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The things that we love tell us what we are.
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Love follows knowledge.
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Rarely affirm, seldom deny, always distinguish.
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