Better to illuminate than merely to shine to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate.
THOMAS AQUINASTo love is to will the good of the other.
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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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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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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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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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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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To love is to will the good of the other.
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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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The greatest kindness one can render to any man consists in leading him from error to truth.
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Love follows knowledge.
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Most men seem to live according to sense rather than reason.
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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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Wonder is the desire of knowledge.
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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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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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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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