Criticism of others is thus an oblique form of self-commendation. We think we make the picture hang straight on our wall by telling our neighbors that all his pictures are crooked.
FULTON J. SHEENOur Lord did not ask us to give up the things of earth, but to exchange them for better things.
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There are not one hundred people in the United States who hate The Catholic Church, but there are millions who hate what they wrongly perceive the Catholic Church to be.
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Liberty is no heirloom. It requires the daily bread of self-denial, the salt of law and, above all, the backbone of acknowledging responsibility for our deeds.
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Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.
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It is not particularly difficult to find thousands who will spend two or three hours a day in exercising, but if you ask them to bend their knees to God in five minutes of prayer they protest that it is too long.
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Modern man has so long preached a doctrine of false tolerance; he has so long believed that right and wrong were only differences in a point of view, that now when evil works itself out in practice he is paralyzed to do anything against it.
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A smile across the aisle of a bus in the morning could save a suicide later in the day.
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Each of us comes into life with fists closed, set for aggressiveness and acquisition. But when we abandon life our hands are open; there is nothing on earth that we need, nothing the soul can take with it.
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Patience is power. Patience is not an absence of action; rather it is “timing” it waits on the right time to act, for the right principles and in the right way.
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Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.
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Charity is to be measured, not by what one has given away, but by what one has left.
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Civilization is always in danger when those who have never learned to obey are given the right to command.
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There are two ways of waking up in the morning. One is to say, ‘Good morning, God,’ and the other is to say, ‘Good God, morning’!
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Humility is dependence on God as pride is independence of Him. The humble soul is always the thankful soul.
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Broadmindedness, when it means indifference to right and wrong, eventually ends in a hatred of what is right.
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The old liberal rebelled against taxation without responsibility, the new liberal wants the taxation as a handout without responsibility.
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We are all born with the power of speech, but we need grammar. Conscience, too, needs Revelation.
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It was to a virgin woman that the birth of the Son of God was announced. It was to a fallen woman that his resurrection was announced.
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Never forget that there are only two philosophies to rule your life: the one of the cross, which starts with the fast and ends with the feast. The other of Satan, which starts with the feast and ends with the headache.
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Believe the incredible and you can do the impossible.
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The Rosary is the best therapy for these distraught, unhappy, fearful, and frustrated souls, precisely because it involves the simultaneous use of three powers: the physical, the vocal, and the spiritual, and in that order.
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Love was meant to be also a sign, a symbol, a messenger, a telltale of the Divine. Love is a messenger from God saying that every human affection and every ecstasy of love are sparks from the great flame of love that is God.
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If you do not worship God, you worship something, and nine times out of ten it will be yourself.
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Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man.
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Prayer begins by talking to God, but it ends by listening to Him. In the face of Absolute Truth, silence is the soul’s language.
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It is easy to find truth, though it is hard to face it, and harder still to follow it.
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Skeptics always want miracles such as stepping down from the Cross, but never the greater miracle of forgiveness.
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