Most commit the same mistake with God that they do with their friends: they do all the talking.
FULTON J. SHEENCommunism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man.
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A smile across the aisle of a bus in the morning could save a suicide later in the day.
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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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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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Humility is dependence on God as pride is independence of Him. The humble soul is always the thankful soul.
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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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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.
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Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
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Satan always tempts the pure – the others are already his.
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Evil may have its hour, but God will have His day.
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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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To create the world cost God nothing; to save it from sin cost His Life Blood.
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Most of us do not like to look inside ourselves for the same reason we don’t like to open a letter that has bad news.
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Believe the incredible and you can do the impossible.
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