Most men seem to live according to sense rather than reason.
THOMAS AQUINASThe things that we love tell us what we are.
More Thomas Aquinas Quotes
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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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Nothing created has ever been able to fill the heart of man. God alone can fill it infinitely.
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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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When the devil is called god of this world, it is not because he made it, but because we serve him with our worldiness.
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True peace consists in not separating ourselves from the will of god.
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To love is to will the good of the other.
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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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If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.
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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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There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship
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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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Better to illuminate than merely to shine to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate.
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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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