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• If you seek patience, you will find no better example than the cross. Great patience occurs in two ways: either when one patiently suffers much, or when one suffers things which one is able to avoid and yet does not avoid. Christ endured much on the cross, and did so patiently, because when he suffered he did not threaten; he was led like a sheep to the slaughter and he did not open his mouth.

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  Sheep, Two, Suffering

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• The existence of a prime mover- nothing can move itself; there must be a first mover. The first mover is called God.

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  Moving, Firsts, Prime

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• As mariners are guided into port by the shining of a star, so Christians are guided to heaven by Mary.

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  Christian, Religious, Stars

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• Believing is an act of the intellect assenting to the divine truth by command of the will moved by God through grace.

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  Believe, Catholic, Grace

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• To teach in order to lead others to faith is the task of every preacher and of each believer.

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  Order, Tasks, Teach

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• The proper effect of the Eucharist is the transformation of man into God.

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  Faith, Inspiration, Men

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• In the end, we know God as unknown.

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  Faith, Ends, Knowing God

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• Faith will tell us Christ is present, When our human senses fail.

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  Failing, Christ, Humans

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• The celebration of Holy Mass is as valuable as the death of Jesus on the cross.

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  Jesus, Sacrifice, Catholic

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• Faith is God's work within us.

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  Faith

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• 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.

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  Men, Church, Ark

  Saint Thomas (Aquinas) (2000). “The Aquinas Catechism: A Simple Explanation of the Catholic Faith by the Church's Greatest Theologian”, p.78, Sophia Institute Press

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• Charity brings to life again those who are spiritually dead.

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  Charity

  Saint Thomas (Aquinas) (1955). “Theological texts”

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• Bestow upon me, O Lord my God, understanding to know thee, diligence to seek thee, wisdom to find thee, and a faithfulness that may finally embrace thee.

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  Understanding, May, Faithfulness

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• Don't ask who said it? Ask what they said.

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  Wisdom, Culture, Said

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• To convert somebody go and take them by the hand and guide them.

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  Philosophical, Hands, Catholic

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• Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand.

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  Faith, Hope, Philosophical

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• 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.

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  Uplifting, Christian, Prayer

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• Not everything that is more difficult is more meritorious.

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  Powerful, Difficult, Difficulty

  Thomas Aquinas (2016). “Questions on Love and Charity: Summa Theologiae, Secunda Secundae, Questions 23–46”, p.128, Yale University Press

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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.

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  Integrity, Gun, Doubt

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• Beware of the person of one book.

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  Book, Philosophical, Reading

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• Anything done against faith or conscience is sinful.

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  Done, Conscience

  "Commentary on Romans". Book by Thomas Aquinas. Chapter 14, 3,

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• The truth of the Christian faith surpasses the capacity of reason.

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  Christian, Reason, Capacity

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• Mary means Star of the sea, for as mariners are guided to port by the ocean star, so Christians attain to glory through Mary's maternal intercession.

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  Christian, Stars, Ocean

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• If all the sins of the flesh are worthy of condemnation because by them man allows himself to be dominated by that which he has of the animal nature, much more deserving of condemnation are the sins against nature by which man degrades his own animal nature.

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  Christian, Men, Animal

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• Charity is the form, mover, mother and root of all the virtues.

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  Mother, Roots, Saint

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