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Monday, 19 October 2009
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By St. Thomas Aquinas   
Not merely learning about divine things but also experiencing them - that does not come from mere intellectual acquaintance with the terms of scientific theology, but from loving the things of God and cleaving to them by affection. . . . Thus, by the settled bent of his affections, a virtuous man is well apt to judge straightaway the affairs of virtue; so also the lover of divine matters divinely catches their gist.
 
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