Since faith rests upon infallible truth, and since the contrary of a truth can never be demonstrated, it … - Thomas Aquinas

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Thomas Aquinas

Since faith rests upon infallible truth, and since the contrary of a truth can never be demonstrated, it is clear that the arguments brought against faith cannot be demonstrations, but are difficulties that can be answered.

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

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It is not theft, properly speaking, to take secretly and use another's property in a case of extreme need: because that which he takes for the support of his life becomes his own property by reason of that need

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Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.

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One faith, St. Paul writes (Eph. 4:5). Hold most firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this, and you dissolve the unity of the Church. . . We must hold this for certain, namely: that the faith of the people at the present day is one with the faith of the people in past centuries. Were this not true, then we would be in a different church than they were in and, literally, the Church would not be One.

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Reason in man is rather like God in the world.

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Brokenness is the STRIPPING OF SELF-RELIANCE AND INDEPENDENCE FROM GOD. . . but he is cast in total dependence upon the grace of God working in and through him.

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