Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.
THOMAS AQUINASGod has no need for our worship. It is we who need to show gratitude for what we have received.
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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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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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The greatest kindness one can render to any man consists in leading him from error to truth.
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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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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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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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If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.
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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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To love is to will the good of the other.
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It is only god who creates. Man merely arranges.
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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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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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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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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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There must be must be a first mover existing above all – and this we call God.
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