To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.
From Thomas Aquinas
Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them.
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.
It is clear that he does not pray, who, far from uplifting himself to God, requires that God shall lower Himself to him, and who resorts to prayer not to stir the man in us to will what God wills, but only to persuade God to will what the man in us wills.
Beware of the person of one book.
Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in the circumstances confronting him.
A man has free choice to the extent that he is rational.
Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.
To live well is to work well, to show a good activity.
Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do.
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