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Dominican Friar Inspirational Quotes (440)

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The seed of God is in us: Pear seeds grow into pear trees Hazel seeds into hazel trees And God seeds into God.
Meister Eckhart
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Celibacy is not just a matter of not having sex. It is a way of admiring a person for their humanity, maybe even for their beauty.
Timothy Radcliffe
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No-one knows what the soul is. But what we do know is, the soul is where God works compassion
Meister Eckhart
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I who am in the night will move into the day.
Giordano Bruno
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How can we live in harmony? First we need to know we are all madly in love with the same God.
Thomas Aquinas
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Our society has lost confidence in the power of reason, except perhaps scientific reason.
Timothy Radcliffe
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Above all else, know this: Be prepared at all times for the gifts of God and be ready always for new ones. For God is a thousand times more ready to give than we are to receive
Meister Eckhart
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You change people by delight, by pleasure.
Thomas Aquinas
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If I define my neighbor as the one I must go out to look for, on the highways and byways, in the factories and slums, on the farms and in the mines, then my world changes.
Gustavo Gutiérrez
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God is bound to act, to pour himself out (into thee) as soon as ever he shall find thee ready.
Meister Eckhart
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The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake.
Meister Eckhart
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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.
Thomas Aquinas
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God wants nothing from you but the gift of a peaceful heart.
Meister Eckhart
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Life is so full of meaning and of purpose, so full of beauty - beneath its covering - that you will find that earth but cloaks your heaven. Courage, then to claim it: that is all!
Giovanni Giocondo
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Banish, therefore, from thy heart the distractions of earth and turn thine eyes to spiritual joys, that thou mayest learn at last to repose in the light of the contemplation of God.
Albertus Magnus
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The soul loves the body. And consider too how it is that the body is more in the soul than the soul is in the body.
Meister Eckhart
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Human salvation demands the divine disclosure of truths surpassing reason.
Thomas Aquinas
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God is like a person who clears his throat while hiding and so gives himself away. God lies in wait for us with nothing so much as love.
Meister Eckhart
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Clearly the person who accepts the Church as an infallible guide will believe whatever the Church teaches.
Thomas Aquinas
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Likewise grace and glory are referred to the same genus, since grace is nothing other than a certain first beginning of glory in us.
Thomas Aquinas
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God is not related to creatures as though belonging to a different genus, but as transcending every genus, and as the principle of all genera.
Thomas Aquinas
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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.
Thomas Aquinas
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Anger and the like are attributed to God on account of a similitude of effect. Thus, because to punish is properly the act of an angry man, God's punishment is metaphorically spoken of as His anger.
Thomas Aquinas
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In my breaking through...I transcend all creatures and am neither God nor creature...for in this breaking through I find that God and I are both the same.
Meister Eckhart
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