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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True peace consists in not separating ourselves from the will of god.
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There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship
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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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It is only god who creates. Man merely arranges.
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Wonder is the desire of knowledge.
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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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Love follows knowledge.
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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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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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Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.
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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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Rarely affirm, seldom deny, always distinguish.
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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 love is to will the good of the other.
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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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