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- There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.
- It is possible to demonstrate God's existence, although not a priori, yet a posteriori from some work of His more surely known to us.
- If forgers and malefactors are put to death by the secular power, there is much more reason for excommunicating and even putting to death one…
- That the saints may enjoy their beatitude and the grace of God more abundantly they are permitted to see the punishment of the damned in…
- Do not wish to jump immediately from the streams to the sea, because one has to go through easier things to the more difficult.
- The magnitude of the punishment matches the magnitude of the sin. Now a sin that is against God is infinite; the higher the person against…
- 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…
- Not everything that is more difficult is more meritorious.
- [It is appropriate that the Body and Blood of Christ be truly present in this Sacrament] because of the perfection of the New Covenant. The…
- Godhead here in hiding, whom I adore Masked by these bare shadows, shape and nothing more, See, Lord, at thy service low lies here a…
- The fact that the evil ones, as long as they live, can be corrected from their errors does not prohibit that they may be justly…
- Of all the pursuits open to men, the search for wisdom is most perfect, more sublime, more profitable, and more full of joy.
- Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are…
- There is, therefore, a more perfect intellectual life in the angels. In them the intellect does not proceed to self-knowledge from anything exterior, but knows…
- The Church has ever proved indestructible. Her persecutors have failed to destroy her; in fact, it was during times of persecution that the Church grew…
- The greater the charity of the Saints in their heavenly home, the more they intercede for those who are still on their journey and the…
- It may well happen that what is in itself the more certain on account of the weakness of our intelligence, which is dazzled by the…
- Because the divine goodness could not be adequately represented by one creature alone, God produced many and diverse creatures, that what was wanting in one…
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