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- Man should not consider his material possession his own, but as common to all, so as to share them without hesitation when others are in…
- How can we live in harmony? First we need to know we are all madly in love with the same God.
- All the efforts of the human mind cannot exhaust the essence of a single fly.
- We can't have full knowledge all at once. We must start by believing; then afterwards we may be led on to master the evidence for…
- All that is true, by whomsoever it has been said has its origin in the Spirit.
- The knowledge of God is the cause of things. For the knowledge of God is to all creatures what the knowledge of the artificer is…
- The celestial bodies are the cause of all that takes place in the sublunar world.
- I can write no more. All that I have written seems like straw.
- One day when Thomas Aquinas was preaching to the local populace on the love of God, he saw an old woman listening attentively to his…
- If all the sins of the flesh are worthy of condemnation because by them man allows himself to be dominated by that which he has…
- Charity is the form, mover, mother and root of all the virtues.
- To restore man, who had been laid low by sin, to the heights of divine glory, the Word of the eternal Father, though containing all…
- Greed is a sin against God, just as all mortal sins, in as much as man condemns things eternal for the sake of temporal things,
- I cannot go on.... All that I have written seems to me like so much straw compared to what I have seen and what has…
- It is necessary to posit something which is necessary of itself, and has no cause of its necessity outside of itself but is the cause…
- Commemoration of Gilbert of Sempringham, Founder of the Gilbertine Order, 1189 Some there are who presume so far on their wits that they think themselves…
- The Bread of angels has become the Bread of mankind; This heavenly Bread puts an end to all images; O wonderful reality! The poor, the…
- But man is freer than all the animals, on account of his free-will, with which he is endowed above all other animals.
- Here 'neath veils, my Saviour darkly I behold; To my thirsting spirit all thy light unfold; Face to face in heaven let me come to…
- Jesus Lord, kind Pelican, Cleanse my filth with Thy blood, One drop of which can save The whole world from all its sin
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