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A smile across the aisle of a bus in the morning could save a suicide later in the day.

Fulton J. Sheen

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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Absence Action Patience Power Principle Right Way
Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
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End Generosity Love Philosophy Recover
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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Difficult Exercise God Prayer Religious Time Willing
All worry is atheism, because it is a want of trust in God.
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Atheist God Trust Worry
A Catholic may sin and sin as badly as anyone else, but no genuine Catholic ever denies he is a sinner. A Catholic wants his sins forgiven – not excused or sublimated.
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Bad Forgiveness Man Religious Sin
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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Devil Forget Head Life Philosophy Rule Start
Before the sin, Satan assures us that it is of no consequence; after the sin, he persuades us that it is unforgivable.
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Consequence Evil Forgiveness Himself Result Sin
Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man.
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Communism Human Logic Man
Hearing nuns’ confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.
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Confession Death Food Funny
Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.
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Goodness Life Yourself
If you do not worship God, you worship something, and nine times out of ten it will be yourself.
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God Time Worship Yourself
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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Morning Perspective Religious Wake Up Way
You must remember to love people and use things, rather than to love things and use people.
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Love People Remember Yourself
Nothing is more destined to create deep-seated anxieties in people than the false assumption that life should be free from anxieties.
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Anxiety Assumption Creation Destiny Fake Freedom People
Charity is to be measured, not by what one has given away, but by what one has left.
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Charity Measurement Oneself
Many souls fail to find God because they want a religion which will remake society without remaking themselves.
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Failure God Religion Remake Soul

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