To tell a woman who is forty, “You look like sixteen,” is boloney. The blarney way of saying it is “Tell me how old you are, I should like to know at what age women are the most beautiful.
FULTON J. SHEENShow 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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Believe the incredible and you can do the impossible.
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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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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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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.
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If you do not live what you believe, you will end up believing what you live.
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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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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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Charity is to be measured, not by what one has given away, but by what one has left.
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Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.
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Our Lord did not ask us to give up the things of earth, but to exchange them for better things.
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God does not love us because we are valuable. We are valuable because God loves us.
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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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Freedom that ignores the transcendent difference between good and evil ends in the denial of freedom itself.
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It’s impossible to lose your footing when you’re on your knees.
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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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