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.
THOMAS AQUINASMost men seem to live according to sense rather than reason.
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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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The soul is uninhabited world that only comes to life when god lays his head against us.
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The things that we love tell us what we are.
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Beware the man of a single book.
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Rarely affirm, seldom deny, always distinguish.
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The greatest kindness one can render to any man consists in leading him from error to truth.
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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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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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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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If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.
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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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Grant me, O Lord my God, a mind to know you, a heart to seek you, wisdom to find you, conduct pleasing to you, faithful perseverance in waiting for you, and a hope of finally embracing you. Amen
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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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God has no need for our worship. It is we who need to show gratitude for what we have received.
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