The soul is uninhabited world that only comes to life when god lays his head against us.
THOMAS AQUINASIf the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.
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A mans heart is right when he wills that god wills.
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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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The things that we love tell us what we are.
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There must be must be a first mover existing above all – and this we call God.
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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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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 philosophy is not that we may know what men have thought, but what the truth of things is.
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Wonder is the desire of knowledge.
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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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The greatest kindness one can render to any man consists in leading him from error to truth.
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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 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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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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To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.
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