SPIRIT OF THE WORLD |
MANY VOICES / ONE TRUTH |
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THE BOOK OF CATHOLIC QUOTATIONS
John Chapin, Editor
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"The life of virtue [is] a climb from the many to the One." St. Thomas Aquinas, 'Summa Theologica' 1-2, 71, 1 (13th century)
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"We believe that God is present everywhere." St. Benedict, 'The Rules of St. Benedict', Rule 19 (6th century)
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"There is one Being Which is supremely good, and supremely great." St. Anselm, 'Monologium' (11th century)
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"The only true joy on earth is to…enter by love into union with the Life Who dwells and sings within the essence of every creature and in the core of our own souls." Thomas Merton, 'Seeds of Contemplation' (20th century)
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"As the Catholic Church declares in the strongest terms the simplicity, spirituality, and immortality of the soul, so with constancy she ever asserts its freedom also." Pope Leo XIII, 'Libertas Praestantissimum', June 20, 1888
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"In the most noble part of the soul, the domain of our spiritual powers, we are constituted in the form of a living and eternal mirror of God; we bear in it the imprint of His eternal image and no other image can enter there." John Ruysbroeck, 'The Mirror of Eternal Salvation' (14th century)
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"Prophets and apostles, evangelists and saints, speak to us with voices that never die." Cardinal Manning, 'The Eternal Priesthood' (19th century)
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"One God! One Majesty! There is no God but Thee! Unbounded, an extended Unity!" F. Faber, 'The Unity of God' (19th century)
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"Humanity is the one name belonging to every nation on earth; there is one soul and many tongues, one spirit and many sounds; every country has its own speech, but the subjects of speech are common to all." Tertullian, 'The Testimony of the Christian Soul' (3rd century)
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"Faith opens the door to understanding." St. Augustine, Letter 137, 15 (5th century)
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"This, then is the full satisfaction of souls, this the happy life: to recognize piously and completely the One through Whom you are led into the truth, the nature of the truth you enjoy, and the bond that connects you with the supreme measure." St. Augustine, 'De Vita Beata' (4th century)
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"The perfect ideal is the synoptic vision of all reality as included within the divine Love, and therefore most lovable in itself. And it is this ideal which is at the back of progress and civilization." M. C. D'Arcy, 'The Idea of God' (20th century)
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"Do not think of the faults of others, but of what is good in them." St. Teresa of Jesus, 'Maxims' (16th century),
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"Regard the providence of God in the contraditions which are offered to you, for God permits them in order to unite you to Himself." St. Francis deSales, 'Letters to Persons in Religion', (17th century)
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"To discover God is not to discover an idea but to discover oneself." Bede Griffiths, 'The Golden String' (20th century)
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"Every being is good, since He who is the Creator of all being whatever is supremely good." St. Augustine, 'Enchiridion'
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"Natural law is a certain quality planted in humanity by nature, which leads them to do what is good." Rufinus, 'Summa Decretorum' (12th century)
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"Man is an epitome of the world; he is a little world in himself, in which all that is to be found in the great world of the universe is to be found." St. Francis deSales, 'Spiritual Conferences' (17th century)
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"God is the cause of everything, He is one and wise." St. Thomas Aquinas, 'Commentary on 2nd Corinthians' (13th century)
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"To love is to wish the other's highest good." R. H. Benson, 'Come Rack! Come Rope!' (20th century)
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"Charity is the bond of brotherhood, the foundation of peace, the mainstay and security of unity." St. Cyprian, 'On Patience' (3rd century)
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"Charity is both the means and the end, the one and only way by which we can attain that perfection which in truth is charity itself." J. P. Camus, 'The Spirit of St. Francis deSales' (17th century)
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"It is not by themselves being so that humans are gods, but they become gods by participation in that one God." St. Augustine, Sermon 16, 1 (5th century)
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"One of the greatest paradoxes of the mystical life is this: that a man cannot enter into the deepest center of himself and pass through that center into God, unless he is able to pass entirely out of himself and empty himself and give himself to other people in the purity of a selfless love." Thomas Merton, 'Seeds of Contemplation' (20th century)
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"There is naturally ingrafted in men's minds an earnest desire of that which is truly good." Boethius, 'De Consolatione Philosophiae' (6th century),
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