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Dominican Friar Inspirational Quotes (440)

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If I say that God is good, that is not true. God is not good. I am good, and if I say that God is wise, that is not true. I am wiser than he is.
Meister Eckhart
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The Father and the Son have one Will, and that Will is the Holy Ghost, Who gives Himself to the soul so that the Divine Nature permeates the powers of the soul so that it can only do God-like works.
Meister Eckhart
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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 been revealed to me.
Thomas Aquinas
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It may be you fear more to deliver judgment upon me than I fear judgment.
Giordano Bruno
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The Angel's bread is made the Bread of man today.
Thomas Aquinas
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In the school of the spirit, man learns wisdom through humility.
Johannes Tauler
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The things that we love tell us what we are.
Thomas Aquinas
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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.
Thomas Aquinas
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The gloom of the world is but a shadow behind it, yet within our reach, is joy. Take joy.
Giovanni Giocondo
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It seems that God does not exist because if one of two contraries be infinite, the other would be altogether destroyed. But the word God means that He is infinite goodness. If, therefore, God existed, there would be no evil discoverable but there is evil in the world. Therefore God does not exist.
Thomas Aquinas
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Once causes are determined, then there is talk of social injustice and the privileged begin to resist.
Gustavo Gutiérrez
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We need the wisdom of women, and the experience of married people and parents, and the depth of the contemplative if we are to be formed as preachers.
Timothy Radcliffe
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The beast that bears you fastest to perfection is suffering.
Meister Eckhart
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Is it not shameful and a great scandal that we poor latecomers, we Christians, aided by grace, the Faith, and the sacraments, should be running about like blind hens, ignorant of our own self and of the depth within us?
Johannes Tauler
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A man who governs his passions is master of his world. We must either command them or be enslaved by them. It is better to be a hammer than an anvil.
Saint Dominic
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Three conditions are necessary for Penance: contrition, which is sorrow for sin, together with a purpose of amendment confession of sins without any omission and satisfaction by means of good works.
Thomas Aquinas
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Love works in a circle, for the beloved moves the lover by stamping a likeness, and the lover then goes out to hold the beloved inreality. Who first was the beginning now becomes the end of motion.
Thomas Aquinas
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It is requisite for the relaxation of the mind that we make use, from time to time, of playful deeds and jokes.
Thomas Aquinas
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When the Soul wants to experience something she throws out an image in front of her and then steps into it.
Meister Eckhart
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The image of God always abides in the soul, whether this image be obsolete and clouded over as to amount to almost nothing or whether it be obscured or disfigured, as is the case with sinners or whether it be clear and beautiful as is the case with the just.
Thomas Aquinas
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The man who has submitted his will and purposes entirely to God, carries God with him in all his works and in all circumstances.
Meister Eckhart
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Since I have spread my wings to purpose high, The more beneath my feet the clouds I see, The more I give the winds my pinions free, Spurning the earth and soaring to the sky.
Giordano Bruno
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Concerning perfect blessedness which consists in a vision of God.
Thomas Aquinas
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As long as I am this or that, I am not all things.
Meister Eckhart
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