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In the translator’s introduction to this volume, James Kellerman relates the following story: As Thomas Aquinas was approaching Paris, a fellow traveler pointed out the lovely buildings gracing that city. Aquinas was impressed, to be sure, but he sighed and stated that he would rather have the complete Incomplete Commentary on Matthew than to be mayor of Paris itself. Thomas’s affection for the...

in the ears of God, not in the eyes of people. “Go into your room and shut the door.” This is so that there will be nobody there except you who pray and he to whom you pray, and so there will not be another person with you except for him whom you need. A witness burdens one who prays and does not help him because God is not compelled by prayers as much as he is pleased by them. I am speaking of another person who has a different heart. But wherever they are of the same heart, even if there were many
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