The greatest kindness one can render to any man consists in leading him from error to truth.
THOMAS AQUINASWe 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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Faith has to do with things that are not seen, and hope with things that are not in hand.
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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 one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.
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True peace consists in not separating ourselves from the will of god.
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Beware the man of a single book.
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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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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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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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Most men seem to live according to sense rather than reason.
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Wonder is the desire of knowledge.
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The things that we love tell us what we are.
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God has no need for our worship. It is we who need to show gratitude for what we have received.
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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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It is only god who creates. Man merely arranges.
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