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Dominican Friar Inspirational Quotes (440)

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Now it seems that everything in the world stems from sources other than God, since the products of nature have their source in nature deliberate effects can be traced back to human reason or will as their source. There is no need then to assume that God exists.
Thomas Aquinas
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It is possible to demonstrate God's existence, although not a priori, yet a posteriori from some work of His more surely known to us.
Thomas Aquinas
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What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action.
Meister Eckhart
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The imbalance between developed and underdeveloped countries - caused by the relationships of dependence - becomes more acute if the cultural point of view is taken into consideration.
Gustavo Gutiérrez
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The denunciation of injustice implies the rejection of the use of Christianity to legitimize the established order.
Gustavo Gutiérrez
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O saving Victim, opening wide The gate of heaven to man below, Our foes press on from every side, Thine aid supply, Thy strength bestow.
Thomas Aquinas
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A pure heart is one that is unencumbered, unworried, uncommitted and which does not want its own way about anything but which, rather, is submerged in the loving will of God.
Meister Eckhart
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The things we love tell us who we are.
Thomas Aquinas
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I cannot understand how anyone conscious of mortal sin can laugh or be merry.
Thomas Aquinas
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One cannot use an evil action with reference to a good intention.
Thomas Aquinas
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Without doubt one is allowed to resist against the unjust aggressor to one's life, one's goods or one's physical integrity sometimes, even 'til the aggressor's death... In fact, this act is aimed at preserving one's life or one's goods and to make the aggressor powerless. Thus, it is a good act, which is the right of the victim.
Thomas Aquinas
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Claiming that you have got the truth wrapped up does breed violence and intolerance.
Timothy Radcliffe
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Faith is God's work within us.
Thomas Aquinas
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Divinity reveals herself in all things. Everything has Divinity latent within itself. For she enfolds and imparts herself even unto the smallest beings, and from the smallest beings, according to their capacity. Without her presence nothing would have being, because she is the essence of the existence of the first unto the last being.
Giordano Bruno
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Not everything that is more difficult is more meritorious.
Thomas Aquinas
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Give, expecting nothing there of.
Thomas Aquinas
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Man is closer to God according to his existence in grace than he is according to his existence in nature.
Thomas Aquinas
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To hope does not mean to know the future, but rather to be open, in an attitude of spiritual childhood, to accepting it as a gift.
Gustavo Gutiérrez
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Charity is not a potency of the soul, because if it were it would be natural. Nor is it a passion, because it is not in a sensitive potency in which are all passions. Nor is it a habit, because a habit is removed with difficulty charity, however, is easily lost through one act of mortal sin. Therefore charity is not something created in the soul.
Thomas Aquinas
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Often when He comes, He finds the soul occupied. Other guests are there, and He has to turn away. He cannot gain entry, for we love and desire other things therefore, His gifts, which He is offering to everyone unceasingly, must remain outside.
Johannes Tauler
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In prayerful silence you must look into your own heart. No one can tell you better than yourself what comes between you and God. Ask yourself. Then listen!
Johannes Tauler
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Become aware of what is in you. Announce it, pronounce it, produce it, and give birth to it.
Meister Eckhart
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Everything that makes diversity of kinds, of species, differences, properties... everything that consists in generation, decay, alteration and change is not an entity, but a condition and circumstance of entity and being, which is one, infinite, immobile, subject, matter, life, death, truth, lies, good and evil.
Giordano Bruno
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People should not worry so much about what they do but rather about what they are.
Meister Eckhart
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