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Dominican Friar Inspirational Quotes (440)

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The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false.
Thomas Aquinas
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Time is what keeps the light from reaching us. There is no greater obstacle to God than time: and not only time but temporalities, not only temporal things but temporal affections, not only temporal affections but the very taint and smell of time.
Meister Eckhart
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Thinking that morality is all about commandments is a relatively new way of thinking, since the Reformation.
Timothy Radcliffe
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In the realm of evil thoughts none induces to sin as much as do thoughts that concern the pleasure of the flesh.
Thomas Aquinas
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He who does Christ's work must stay with Christ always.
Fra Angelico
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I await your sentence with less fear than you pass it. The time will come when all will see what I see.
Giordano Bruno
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You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion.
Meister Eckhart
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There would not be a perfect likeness of God in the universe if all things were of one grade of being.
Thomas Aquinas
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When I think of God's Kingdom, I am compelled to be silent because of its immensity, because God's Kingdom is none other than God himself with all His riches.
Meister Eckhart
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There can be no joy in living without joy in work.
Thomas Aquinas
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I don't care if 1 is prime or not, if 2 is prime or not, if 3 is prime or not. All I care is that there are more stars in the heavens than primes in the earth.
Giordano Bruno
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Theology is reflection, a critical attitude. The commitment of love, of service, comes first. Theology follows it is the second step.
Gustavo Gutiérrez
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I never mingled with men, but I came home less of a man than I went out.
Johannes Tauler
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It is inner abandonment that leads men to the highest truth.
Henry Suso
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The outward man is the swinging door the inner man is the still hinge.
Meister Eckhart
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The seed of God is in us. If the seed had a good, wise and industrious cultivator, it would thrive all the more and grow up to God whose seed it is, and the fruit would be equal to the nature of God. Now the seed of a pear tree grows into a pear tree, a hazel seed into a hazel tree, and the seed of God into God.
Meister Eckhart
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To seek God by rituals is to get the ritual and lose God in the process
Meister Eckhart
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No man truly has joy unless he lives in love.
Thomas Aquinas
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One will observe that all things are arranged according to their degrees of beauty and excellence, and that the nearer they are to God, the more beautiful and better they are.
Thomas Aquinas
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It is by the path of love, which is charity, that God draws near to man, and man to God. But where charity is not found, God cannot dwell. If, then, we possess charity, we possess God, for God is Charity (1John 4:8)
Albertus Magnus
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The eternal God asks a favor of his bride: Hold me close to your heart, close as locket or bracelet fits. No matter whether we walk or stand still, eat or drink, we should at all times wear the golden locket Jesus upon our heart.
Henry Suso
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Whether you like it or not, whether you know it or not, secretly all nature seeks God and works toward [God].
Meister Eckhart
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This evening I wish to suggest that we Christians should accompany people on their pilgrimages. Specifically we should travel with people as they search for the good, the true and the beautiful.
Timothy Radcliffe
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God is never angry for His sake, only for ours.
Thomas Aquinas
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