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- The womb is like an altar, it's the place where God continually comes into the world and does what only God can do...create.
- God's interventions are miracles: events that cannot happen by merely natural agents but only by a supernatural agent. They no more interfere with our free…
- We can't avoid reasoning; we can only avoid doing it well.
- Conscience is thus explained only as the voice of God in the soul.
- We are all insane. That is what original sin means. Sin is insanity. It is preferring finite joy to infinite joy, creatures to the Creator,…
- If your life is Christ, then your death will be only more of Christ, forever. If your life is only Christlessness, then your death will…
- This is the secret of life: the self lives only by dying, finds its identity (and its happiness) only by self-forgetfulness, self-giving, self-sacrifice, and agape…
- God gives us not only the truth but also the ability to believe it; not only the new thing to see but also the new…
- Everything smaller than Heaven bores us because only Heaven is bigger than our hearts.
- Only God may be adored, because only God is unlimited goodness, truth, and beauty, and thus only God deserves unlimited love.
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- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford. — Hannah Arendt
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. — Aristotle
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle