If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.
THOMAS AQUINASGrant 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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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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Most men seem to live according to sense rather than reason.
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A mans heart is right when he wills that god wills.
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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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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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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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Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.
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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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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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It is only god who creates. Man merely arranges.
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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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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 greatest kindness one can render to any man consists in leading him from error to truth.
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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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