The soul is uninhabited world that only comes to life when god lays his head against us.
THOMAS AQUINASHe 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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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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Beware the man of a single book.
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Love follows knowledge.
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Wonder is the desire of knowledge.
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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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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 set forth our petitions before god, not in order to make known to him our needs and desires, but rather so that we ourselves may realize that in the things it is necessary to turn to god for help.
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Rarely affirm, seldom deny, always distinguish.
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The things that we love tell us what we are.
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I 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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The greatest kindness one can render to any man consists in leading him from error to truth.
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There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship
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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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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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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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