"Believing is an act of the intellect assenting to the divine truth by command of the will moved by God through grace."
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"A man's heart is right when he wills what God wills."
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"There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship."
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"Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious."
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"Whatever a man has in superabundance is owed, of natural right, to the poor for their sustenance."
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"There is within every soul a thirst for happiness and meaning."
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"The Cross to me is certain salvation. The Cross is that which I ever adore. The Cross of the Lord is with me. The Cross is my refuge."
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"God has no need for our worship. It is we who need to show our gratitude for what we have received."
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"Obedience unites us so closely to God that it in a way transforms us into Him, so that we have no other will but His. If obedience is lacking, even prayer cannot be pleasing to God."
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"For in order that man may do well, whether in the works of the active life, or in those of the contemplative life, he needs the fellowship of friends."
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"Angels transcend every religion, every philosophy, every creed. In fact Angels have no religion as we know it... Their existence precedes every religious system that has ever existed on Earth."
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"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 every word. And inspired by her eagerness to learn more about her God whom she loved so dearly, he said to the people: It is better to be this unlearned woman, loving God with all her heart, than the most learned theologian lacking love."
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"Mary means Star of the sea, for as mariners are guided to port by the ocean star, so Christians attain to glory through Mary's maternal intercession."
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"Better to illuminate than merely to shine."
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"To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin."
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"Every judgement of conscience, be it right or wrong, be it about things evil in themselves or morally indifferent, is obligatory, in such wise that he who acts against his conscience always sins."
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"Clearly the person who accepts the Church as an infallible guide will believe whatever the Church teaches."
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"All my words are but chaff next to the faith of a simple man."
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"Human salvation demands the divine disclosure of truths surpassing reason."
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"To live well is to work well, to show a good activity."
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