Love follows knowledge.
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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It is only god who creates. Man merely arranges.
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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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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 greatest kindness one can render to any man consists in leading him from error to truth.
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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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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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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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Nothing created has ever been able to fill the heart of man. God alone can fill it infinitely.
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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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Beware the man of a single book.
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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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There must be must be a first mover existing above all – and this we call God.
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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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To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.
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