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92 Cards in this Set
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“He shows himself longing for his fate with a lover’s passion”
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Ignatius of Antioch
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“Pray leave me to be a meal for the beasts, for it is they who can provide my way to God”
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Ignatius of Antioch
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o “I am his wheat, ground fine by the lion’s teeth to be made purest bread for Christ” “It is asserted by some who deny God that His sufferings were not genuine…in that case, I am giving away my life for nothing”
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Ignatius of Antioch
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o “Leave me to imitate the passion of my God”
o “I crave that blood of his which is love imperishable” |
Ignatius of Antioch
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“Deadly fruit…the promise that we have from God is the promise of unity, which is the essence of Himself”
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Ignatius of Antioch
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“He was verily and indeed born, and ate and drank”
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Ignatius of Antioch
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Sanctus – “I am a Christian.”
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Martyrs of Lyon
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o “Excluded from houses, baths, and the forum…enduring every form of shame and torture…they made light of their great sufferings…nobly endured the evils heaped on them…mocking, beatings, dragging, robberies, stoning, and imprisonments”
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Martyrs of Lyon
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“You, indeed, may be able to kill us, but you cannot harm us”
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Justin Martyr
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“…in accordance with piety and philosophy”
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Justin Martyr
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"For, sound reason not only demands…the lover of truth must choose, in every way possible, to do and say what is right…rather than save his own life.”
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Justin Martyr
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“Common sense dictates that they who are truly pious men and philosophers should honor and cherish only what is true, and refuse to follow the beliefs of their forefathers, if these beliefs be worthless."
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Justin Martyr
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“Every reasonable person will agree that the only proper and just proposition is this: let the subject render a blameless account of their life and doctrine; likewise, let the rulers pass judgment, not through force and tyranny, but in accordance with piety and philosophy.”
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Justin Martyr
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“Unless the rulers and their subjects become philosophers, it is impossible for states to become happy.”
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Justin Martyr
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"On the day called Sunday, all who live in cities or in the country gather together to one place…”
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Justin Martyr
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“Hereafter, you will be without excuse before God, if you know the truth, yet do not act in accordance with justice.”
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Justin Martyr
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“Nothing good or evil is included in the mere use of a name, apart from the actions which are associated with that name.”
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Justin Martyr
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“If we be found to have done no wrong…you justly incur punishment yourselves.”
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Justin Martyr
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“We are accused of being Christians, yet to hate what is good is not just. Then, too, if any of the accused should deny verbally to be what the name implies, you acquit him, as though having no proof that he did wrong.”
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Justin Martyr
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“When, indeed, we assert that the Word, our Teacher Jesus Christ, who is the first-begotten of God the Father, was not born as the result of sexual relations, and that He was crucified, died, arose from the dead, and ascended into Heaven, we promise nothing new or different from that which you say about the so-called sons of Jupiter.”
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Justin Martyr
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“Since therefore we have such proofs it is not necessary to seek the truth among others…”
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Irenaeus
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We must think soberly with regard to the mysteries of the faith.
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Irenaeus
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“Now the previous homily gave us the opportunity of speaking about the departure of the children of Israel from Egypt, and we said that in a spiritual sense there can be seen a double exodus from Egypt, either when we leave our life as Gentiles and come to the knowledge of the divine Law or when the soul leaves its dwelling place in the body”
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Origen
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"But we have nearly forgotten our preface and have suddenly raised your hearing to lofty heights. Let us then, by all means, return to what happens among us and in us. When the children of Israel were in Egypt, they were afflicted with mortar and brick. And He heard their cry and sent His Word to them by Moses and led them out of Egypt."
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Origen
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"We, then, when were also in Egypt, I mean in the errors of this world and in the darkness of ignorance, did the works of the devil in lusts and desires of the flesh. But the Lord had pity on our affliction and sent the Word, His Only Begotten Son, to deliver us from ignorance of our error and to lead us to the light of the divine Law.”
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Origen
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“But first of all contemplate the reckoning up of mystery. If one examines as carefully as possible, he will find in the Scriptures that there are forty-two stages in the departure children of Israel from Egypt; and, further, the coming of Lord and Savior into this world is traced through forty-two generations…from Abraham to David…fourteen generations.”
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Origen
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“And so, the person who ascends, ascends with Him who descended from there to us, so that he may arrive at the place from which He descended not by necessity but because He deemed it right.”
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Origen
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“Therefore when men who are weak invoke him, when pursued they beg his aid, when harmed they pray, then the invisible One, a lover of mankind, shines forth through his kindness, which he does through his own Word and in himself, and more the divine manifestation occurs to each according to the need.”
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Athanasius
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“The lord became a refuge for the poor”
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Athanasius
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“Accept ‘having become, ‘he made’, and ‘he created’ in reference to his incarnate presence”
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Athanasius
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“For then he became a help and a house of refuge “in his body on the cross he bore our sins”
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Athanasius
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“Come to me, all who are tired and burdened, and I will give you rest”
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Athanasius
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“God himself, but, as has been said, the love of humankind, thus the expressions ‘Having become better than the angels,’ ‘He has become’ and ‘So much more has Jesus become a better surety’ do signify not that the substance of the Word is originated but the kindness which happened to us from his incarnation, although heretics might be ungrateful and contentious in regard to their impiety”
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Athanasius
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“And before he was begotten or created or defined or established, he was not. For he was not unbegotten. But we are persecuted because we say, “The Son has a beginning, but God is without beginning.”
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Athanasius
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Because of this we are persecuted because we say, “The Son has a beginning, but God is without beginning.” We are persecuted because we say, “He is from nothing.” But we speak thus inasmuch as he is neither part of God nor from any substratum.
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Athanasius
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On account of this we are persecuted. You know the rest. I pray that you are strong in the Lord, recalling our afflictions, fellow pupil…”Eusebius”.
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Athanasius
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“We know one God – alone unbegotten, alone everlasting, alone without beginning, alone true, alone possessing immortality, alone wise, alone good, alone master, judge of all…just and good…who begot an only-begotten Son before eternal times, through whom he made the ages and everything”
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Athanasius
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“But, as we say, he was created by the will of God before times and ages, and he received life, being, and glories from the Father as the Father has shared them with him. For the Father, having given to him the inheritance of all, did not deprive himself of those things which he has in himself without generation, for he is the source of all.”
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Athanasius
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“Since they put forth divine declarations as a pretext…it is necessary to reply to them…to show that our opponents are thinking wrongly.”
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Athanasius
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“He is of the grace given to him alone and has God, as the creator of his being like all others. Since he is of such a kind, as they say, it will be obvious that he did not have from the beginning the name “Son” if he had it as a prize for works and progress – a progress not other than that which he made when he became man and took the form of a slave”
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Athanasius
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“Obviously he himself in no way improved the flesh – rather, he himself through it was improved…what was before this? Again it is necessary to question them…”
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Athanasius
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“Therefore, if even before the existence of the world the Son had glory and “was Lord of glory and the Highest” and came down from heaven and is always worshiped…he did not have the title of Son and God as reward…having become man himself.”
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Athanasius
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“We have countered their irrational thoughts…the immutability of the Son, the unchangeable nature of his Father, and their folly may be known.”
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Athanasius
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“What sort of grace did the giver of grace receive?”
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Athanasius
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“Even before and always he is Lord and fashioner of the heavens, even on our behalf this present exaltation is written...opened on our behalf”
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Athanasius
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“Word became flesh, and in flesh endures death, this has all occurred not to the dishonor of his death but “to the glory of God the Father”
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Athanasius
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“What is considered by meant the foolishness of God on account of the cross has become more honored than all”
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Athanasius
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“But if on our account he sanctifies himself and does this when he became man, it is very obvious that the descent of the Spirit on him in the Jordan was a descent on us because of his bearing our body”
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Athanasius
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“This is he who says, ‘My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?’ This is he who suffered a death of three days’ duration. But I worship this one together wit he Godhead because he is a sharer in the divine authority”
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Council of Chalcedon
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“I adore him as the instrument of the Lord’s goodness”
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Council of Chalcedon
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‘Why do you seek to kill me, a man, who have spoken truth to you?”
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Council of Chalcedon
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“I was in love with my own ruin”
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Saint Augustine
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“You are great o Lord”
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Saint Augustine
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et laudabiles valde: and greatly worthy of praise
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Saint Augustine
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Quid mihi es? What are you to me?
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Saint Augustine
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• “I threw my whole life away, and God gave it back to me without my asking”
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Saint Augustine
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It was foul,
and I loved it; I loved to perish, I loved mine own fault, not that for which I was faulty, but my fault itself. Foul soul, falling from Thy firmament to utter destruction; not seeking aught through the shame, but the shame itself! |
Saint Augustine
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“Nothing harsh, nothing burdensome…”
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St. Benedict
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“To do battle”
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St. Benedict
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It should be a source of joy for us to obey and do the works of God.
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St. Benedict
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Poverty is a discipline of obedience, and vice versa.
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St. Benedict
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"For nothing is so inconsistent with the life of any Christian as overindulgence...take care that your hearts are not weighted down with overindulgence
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St. Benedict
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"Accordingly in every instance, all are to follow the teaching of the rule, and no one shall rashly deviate from it"
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St. Benedict
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"Above all we must admonish to refrain from grumbling."
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St. Benedict
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"Idleness is the enemy of the soul."
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St. Benedict
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"...since it is written: Never do to another what you would not want done to yourself."
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St. Benedict
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“From the point of view of someone trying to raise his mind to the contemplation of God, and seeking to understand what he believes”
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Anselm
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"I confess, Lord, with thanksgiving, that you have made me in your image, so that I can remember you, think of you, and love you."
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Anselm
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"For it is possible to think of something which it is not possible to think of as not existing, and that is greater than something that can be thought not to exist."
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Anselm
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"For is someone's mind could think of something better than you, the creature would rise higher than its creator and would judge its creator."
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Anselm
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It must be said that every evil in some way has a cause. For evil is the absence of the good, which is natural and due to a thing.
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St. Thomas Aquinas
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Habit is a conditioning or disposition by which x is either well or ill disposed towards something appropriate to its own nature.
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St. Thomas Aquinas
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On the contrary, The Philosopher says in the Book of Predicaments (Categor. vi) that "habit is a quality which is difficult to change."
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St. Thomas Aquinas
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o “Habit implies disposition relevant to the nature of the thing and to its activity or end whereby the thing is well or ill-disposed thereto”
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St. Thomas Aquinas
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Therefore human virtue which is an operative habit, is a good habit, productive of good works.
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St. Thomas Aquinas
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Reason is shown to be so much the more perfect, according as it is able to overcome or endure more easily the weakness of the body and of the lower powers.
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St. Thomas Aquinas
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Reason is the first principle of all human acts; and whatever other principles of human acts may be found, they obey reason somewhat, but in various ways.
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St. Thomas Aquinas
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In philosophy, faith doesn’t make you just or righteous, but it’s trust in God that he makes you just or righteous.
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St. Thomas Aquinas
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God has to give you that order. You can never have faith, hope, and love unless they are given to you.
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St. Thomas Aquinas
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“The way, however, is only through the most burning love of the Crucified”
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Bonaventura
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“To follow…the footprints of Our Lord Jesus Christ”
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St. Francis
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"When I was in sins, it seemed extremely bitter to me to look at lepers, and the Lord himself led me among them and I practiced mercy with them."
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St. Francis
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"Thus prayer is the mother and the source of ascent in God."
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Bonaventura
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"We ought finally to pass over to...the reverence of His majesty."
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Bonaventura
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a. The ascent to Mount Alverna (where St. Francis received the stigmata) includes a vision of the winged Seraph
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Bonaventura
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"For since, relative to our life on earth, the world is itself a ladder for ascending to God..."
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Bonaventura
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"Now is the three days' journey into the wilderness..."
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Bonaventura
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"Since, then we must mount Jacob's ladder before descending it, let us place the first run of the ascension in the depth..."
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Bonaventura
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Every perception is inextricably intertwined with a judgment.
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Bonaventura
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. If you become more and more aware in faith of who Jesus is, that’s the “milk” or the healing.
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Bonaventura
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We are afraid of giving ourselves to love because we’re afraid we’re going to lose ourselves. Actually, we’re going to find ourselves as Beloved.
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Bonaventura
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"From all that I have heard of him in Heaven, he is, I fear, already so astray that I have come to help him much too late."
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Dante
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