Our aspect of neighborly love is that we must not merely will our neighbors good, but actually work to bring it about.
THOMAS AQUINASFaith has to do with things that are not seen, and hope with things that are not in hand.
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Fear is such a powerful emotion for humans that when we allow it to take us over, it drives compassion right out of our hearts.
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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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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 greatest kindness one can render to any man consists in leading him from error to truth.
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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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Nothing created has ever been able to fill the heart of man. God alone can fill it infinitely.
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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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Rarely affirm, seldom deny, always distinguish.
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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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True peace consists in not separating ourselves from the will of god.
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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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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 Study of philosophy is not that we may know what men have thought, but what the truth of things is.
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Better to illuminate than merely to shine to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate.
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There must be must be a first mover existing above all – and this we call God.
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