Love follows knowledge.
THOMAS AQUINASMan 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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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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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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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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To love is to will the good of the other.
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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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To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.
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True peace consists in not separating ourselves from the will of god.
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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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Beware the man of a single book.
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The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false.
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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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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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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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