When the devil is called god of this world, it is not because he made it, but because we serve him with our worldiness.
THOMAS AQUINASI 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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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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Beware the man of a single book.
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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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If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.
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How is it they live in such harmony, the billions of stars, when most men can barely go a minute without declaring war in their minds?
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There must be must be a first mover existing above all – and this we call God.
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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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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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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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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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The things that we love tell us what we are.
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Most men seem to live according to sense rather than reason.
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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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The soul is uninhabited world that only comes to life when god lays his head against us.
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