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 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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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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To love is to will the good of the other.
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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
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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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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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There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship
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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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Love follows knowledge.
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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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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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Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.
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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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God has no need for our worship. It is we who need to show gratitude for what we have received.
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There must be must be a first mover existing above all – and this we call God.
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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.
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