God has no need for our worship. It is we who need to show gratitude for what we have received.
THOMAS AQUINASWhen 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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If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.
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There must be must be a first mover existing above all – and this we call God.
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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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It is only god who creates. Man merely arranges.
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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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To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.
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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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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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To love is to will the good of the other.
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Beware the man of a single book.
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Wonder is the desire of knowledge.
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A mans heart is right when he wills that god wills.
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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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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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Nothing created has ever been able to fill the heart of man. God alone can fill it infinitely.
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