Rarely affirm, seldom deny, always distinguish.
THOMAS AQUINASThe greatest kindness one can render to any man consists in leading him from error to truth.
More Thomas Aquinas Quotes
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The things that we love tell us what we are.
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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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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 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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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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Love follows knowledge.
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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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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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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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True peace consists in not separating ourselves from the will of god.
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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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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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The soul is uninhabited world that only comes to life when god lays his head against us.
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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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It is only god who creates. Man merely arranges.
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