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• Not everything that is more difficult is more meritorious.

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  Powerful, Difficult, Difficulty

  Thomas Aquinas (2016). “Questions on Love and Charity: Summa Theologiae, Secunda Secundae, Questions 23–46”, p.128, Yale University Press

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• Unbelief is the greatest of sins.

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  Religion, Atheism, Sin

  Thomas Aquinas (2013). “Summa Theologica (All Complete & Unabridged 3 Parts + Supplement & Appendix + interactive links and annotations)”, p.2852, e-artnow

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• Hold firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this, and you dissolve the unity of the Church.

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  Powerful, Ethos, Catholic

  Saint Thomas (Aquinas) (1955). “Theological texts”

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• Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand.

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  Faith, Hope, Philosophical

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• The soul is known by it's acts.

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  Soul, Known

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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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  Religious, Philosophy, Angel

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• Most men seem to live according to sense rather than reason.

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  Men, Catholic, Reason

  Saint Thomas (Aquinas) (1951). “St. Thomas Aquinas: Philosophical Texts”

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• To convert somebody go and take them by the hand and guide them.

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  Philosophical, Hands, Catholic

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• One faith, St. Paul writes (Eph. 4:5). Hold most firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this, and you dissolve the unity of the Church ... We must hold this for certain, namely: that the faith of the people at the present day is one with the faith of the people in past centuries. Were this not true, then we would be in a different church than they were in and, literally, the Church would not be One.

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  Writing, Past, People

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• The truth of the Christian faith surpasses the capacity of reason.

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  Christian, Reason, Capacity

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• God's precepts are light to the loving, heavy to the fearful.

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  Light, Heavy, Fearful

  Saint Thomas (Aquinas) (1955). “Theological texts”

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• Bestow upon me, O Lord my God, understanding to know thee, diligence to seek thee, wisdom to find thee, and a faithfulness that may finally embrace thee.

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  Understanding, May, Faithfulness

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• There is but one Church in which men find salvation, just as outside the ark of Noah it was not possible for anyone to be saved.

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  Men, Church, Ark

  Saint Thomas (Aquinas) (2000). “The Aquinas Catechism: A Simple Explanation of the Catholic Faith by the Church's Greatest Theologian”, p.78, Sophia Institute Press

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• Charity is the form, mover, mother and root of all the virtues.

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  Mother, Roots, Saint

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• We are like children, who stand in need of masters to enlighten us and direct us; God has provided for this, by appointing his angels to be our teachers and guides.

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  Teacher, Children, Angel

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• If you seek patience, you will find no better example than the cross. Great patience occurs in two ways: either when one patiently suffers much, or when one suffers things which one is able to avoid and yet does not avoid. Christ endured much on the cross, and did so patiently, because when he suffered he did not threaten; he was led like a sheep to the slaughter and he did not open his mouth.

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  Sheep, Two, Suffering

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• Faith is God's work within us.

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  Faith

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• He who does not embrace the teaching of the Church does not have the habit of faith.

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  Teaching, Church, Doe

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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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  Christian, Stars, Ocean

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• Faith will tell us Christ is present, When our human senses fail.

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  Failing, Christ, Humans

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• Charity brings to life again those who are spiritually dead.

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  Charity

  Saint Thomas (Aquinas) (1955). “Theological texts”

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• The Sacrament of the Body of the Lord puts the demons to flight, defends us against the incentives to vice and to concupiscence, cleanses the soul from sin, quiets the anger of God, enlightens the understanding to know God, inflames the will and the affections with the love of God, fills the memory with spiritual sweetness, confirms the entire man in good, frees us from eternal death, multiplies the merits of a good life, leads us to our everlasting home, and re-animates the body to eternal life

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  Spiritual, Good Life, Memories

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• I would rather feel compassion than know the meaning of it. I would hope to act with compassion without thinking of personal gain.

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  Thinking, Compassion, Gains

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• All my words are but chaff next to the faith of a simple man.

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  Simple, Men, Simple Man

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• The apostles and their successors are God's vicars in governing the Church which is built on faith and the sacraments of faith. Wherefore, just as they may not institute another Church, so neither may they deliver another faith, nor institute other sacraments.

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  Powerful, Catholic, Church

  St Thomas Aquinas (2013). “Summa Theologica, Volume 4 (Part III, First Section)”, p.2362, Cosimo, Inc.

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