The greatest kindness one can render to any man consists in leading him from error to truth.
THOMAS AQUINASTo pretend angels do not exist because they are invisible is to believe we never sleep because we don’t see ourselves sleeping.
More Thomas Aquinas Quotes
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Love follows knowledge.
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The study of truth requires a considerable effort – which is why few are willing to undertake it out of love of knowledge – despite the fact that God has implanted a natural appetite for such knowledge in the minds of men.
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To love is to will the good of the other.
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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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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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Faith has to do with things that are not seen, and hope with things that are not in hand.
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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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It is only god who creates. Man merely arranges.
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The things that we love tell us what we are.
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True peace consists in not separating ourselves from the will of god.
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There must be must be a first mover existing above all – and this we call God.
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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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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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Nothing created has ever been able to fill the heart of man. God alone can fill it infinitely.
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