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
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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The things that we love tell us what we are.
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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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The soul is uninhabited world that only comes to life when god lays his head against us.
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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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The greatest kindness one can render to any man consists in leading him from error to truth.
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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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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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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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Beware the man of a single book.
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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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Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.
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Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder.
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A mans heart is right when he wills that god wills.
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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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It is only god who creates. Man merely arranges.
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