Better to illuminate than merely to shine to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate.
THOMAS AQUINASThe greatest kindness one can render to any man consists in leading him from error to truth.
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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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Nothing created has ever been able to fill the heart of man. God alone can fill it infinitely.
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It is only god who creates. Man merely arranges.
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Love follows knowledge.
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The things that we love tell us what we are.
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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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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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True peace consists in not separating ourselves from the will of god.
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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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There must be must be a first mover existing above all – and this we call God.
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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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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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Wonder is the desire of knowledge.
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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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To love is to will the good of the other.
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