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 AQUINASFriendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.
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Wonder is the desire of knowledge.
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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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To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.
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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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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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A mans heart is right when he wills that god wills.
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It is only god who creates. Man merely arranges.
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To love is to will the good of the other.
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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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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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The soul is uninhabited world that only comes to life when god lays his head against us.
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True peace consists in not separating ourselves from the will of god.
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Love follows knowledge.
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Rarely affirm, seldom deny, always distinguish.
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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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