God has no need for our worship. It is we who need to show gratitude for what we have received.
THOMAS AQUINASThere is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship
More Thomas Aquinas Quotes
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To love is to will the good of the other.
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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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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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A mans heart is right when he wills that god wills.
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Love follows 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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There must be must be a first mover existing above all – and this we call God.
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Rarely affirm, seldom deny, always distinguish.
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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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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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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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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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The study of truth requires a considerable effort – which is why few are willing to undertake it out of love of knowledge – despite the fact that God has implanted a natural appetite for such knowledge in the minds of men.
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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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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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