Love follows knowledge.
THOMAS AQUINASOur 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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It is only god who creates. Man merely arranges.
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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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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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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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There must be must be a first mover existing above all – and this we call God.
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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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Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become addicted to carnal pleasures.
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To love is to will the good of the other.
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True peace consists in not separating ourselves from the will of god.
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Wonder is the desire of knowledge.
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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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The things that we love tell us what we are.
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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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