Help someone in distress and you lighten your own burden; the very joy of alleviating the sorrow of another is the lessening of one’s own.
FULTON J. SHEENThere 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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A woman gets angry when a man denies his faults, because she knew them all along. His lying mocks her affection; it is the deceit that angers her more than the faults.
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There are angels near you to guide you and protect you, if you would but invoke them. It is not later than we think, it is a bigger world than we think.
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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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Counsel involving right and wrong should never be sought from a man who does not say his prayers.
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Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man.
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Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.
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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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To create the world cost God nothing; to save it from sin cost His Life Blood.
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Judge the Catholic Church not by those who barely live by its spirit, but by the example of those who live closest to it.
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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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Freedom does not mean that right to do whatever we please, but rather to do as we ought. The right to do whatever we please reduces freedom to a physical power and forgets that freedom is a moral power.
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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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There is no other subject on which the average mind is so much confused as the subject of tolerance and intolerance… Tolerance applies only to persons, but never to principles. Intolerance applies only to principles, but never to persons.
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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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Let those who think that the Church pays too much attention to Mary give heed to the fact that Our Blessed Lord Himself gave ten times as much of His life to her as He gave to His Apostles.
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