The difference between the love of a man and the love of a woman is that a man will always give reasons for loving, but a woman gives no reasons for loving.
FULTON J. SHEENOur happiest times are those in which we forget ourselves, usually in being kind to someone else. That tiny moment of self-abdication is an act of true humility: the man who loses himself finds himself and finds his happiness.
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Hearing nuns’ confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.
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Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.
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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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It’s impossible to lose your footing when you’re on your knees.
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Show me your hands. Do they have scars from giving? Show me your feet. Are they wounded in service? Show me your heart. Have you left a place for divine love?
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To create the world cost God nothing; to save it from sin cost His Life Blood.
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You must remember to love people and use things, rather than to love things and use people.
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Every moment comes to you pregnant with divine purpose. Once it leaves your hands and your power to do with it as you please, it plunges into eternity, to remain forever what you made it.
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Souls generally do not fall away from Christ because of the Creed; they first have difficulty with the Commandments.
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Our happiest times are those in which we forget ourselves, usually in being kind to someone else. That tiny moment of self-abdication is an act of true humility: the man who loses himself finds himself and finds his happiness.
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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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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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It is easy to find truth, though it is hard to face it, and harder still to follow it.
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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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How could science be an enemy of religion when God commanded man to be a scientist the day He told him to rule the earth and subject it?
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