To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.
THOMAS AQUINASFear 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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The things that we love tell us what we are.
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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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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 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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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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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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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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God himself would not permit evil in this world if good did not come of it for the benefit and harmony of the universe.
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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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It is only god who creates. Man merely arranges.
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There must be must be a first mover existing above all – and this we call God.
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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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