To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.
THOMAS AQUINASIf the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.
More Thomas Aquinas Quotes
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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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True peace consists in not separating ourselves from the will of god.
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Rarely affirm, seldom deny, always distinguish.
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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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The soul is uninhabited world that only comes to life when god lays his head against us.
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A mans heart is right when he wills that god wills.
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To love is to will the good of the other.
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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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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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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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Wonder is the desire of knowledge.
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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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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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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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We set forth our petitions before god, not in order to make known to him our needs and desires, but rather so that we ourselves may realize that in the things it is necessary to turn to god for help.
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