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.
FULTON J. SHEENEvery 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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If you do not worship God, you worship something, and nine times out of ten it will be yourself.
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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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Humility is dependence on God as pride is independence of Him. The humble soul is always the thankful soul.
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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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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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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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Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.
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Evil may have its hour, but God will have His day.
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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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Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man.
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Sex has become one of the most discussed subjects of modern times. The Victorians pretended it did not exist; the moderns pretend nothing else exists.
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When a child is given to his parents, a crown is made for that child in Heaven, and woe to the parents who raise a child without consciousness of that eternal crown!
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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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Jealousy is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.
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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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