We must love them both, those whose opinions we share and those whose opinions we reject, for both have labored in the search for truth, and both have helped us in finding it.
THOMAS AQUINASThe 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.
More Thomas Aquinas Quotes
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Rarely affirm, seldom deny, always distinguish.
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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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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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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 things that we love tell us what we are.
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There must be must be a first mover existing above all – and this we call God.
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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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To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.
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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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Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do.
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There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship
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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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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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The soul is uninhabited world that only comes to life when god lays his head against us.
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