Love must precede hatred, and nothing is hated save through being contrary to a suitable thing which is loved. And hence it is that every hatred is caused by love.
Thomas Aquinas
Love is a binding force, by which another is joined to me and cherished by myself.
force
Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.
The things that we love tell us what we are.
Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand.
faith
Hold firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this, and you dissolve the unity of the Church.
unity faith
To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.
Down in adoration falling, Lo! The sacred Host we hail; Lo! O'er ancient forms departing, Newer rites of grace prevail; Faith for all defects supplying, Where the feeble senses fail.
grace faith
Beauty adds to goodness a relation to the cognitive faculty: so that good means that which simply pleases the appetite; while the beautiful is something pleasant to apprehend.
beauty
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.
work
The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work, but in the excellence of the work he produces.
tests work
To live well is to work well, to show a good activity.
Three conditions are necessary for Penance: contrition, which is sorrow for sin, together with a purpose of amendment; confession of sins without any omission; and satisfaction by means of good works.
purpose work
Most men seem to live according to sense rather than reason.
men
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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