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.
THOMAS AQUINASBeware the man of a single book.
More Thomas Aquinas Quotes
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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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Faith has to do with things that are not seen, and hope with things that are not in hand.
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The things that we love tell us what we are.
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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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It is only god who creates. Man merely arranges.
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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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Nothing created has ever been able to fill the heart of man. God alone can fill it infinitely.
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Beware the man of a single book.
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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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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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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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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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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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