Most commit the same mistake with God that they do with their friends: they do all the talking.
FULTON J. SHEENCivilization is always in danger when those who have never learned to obey are given the right to command.
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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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I feel it is time that I also pay tribute to my four writers, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
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Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man.
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It is not particularly difficult to find thousands who will spend two or three hours a day in exercising, but if you ask them to bend their knees to God in five minutes of prayer they protest that it is too long.
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Patience is power. Patience is not an absence of action; rather it is “timing” it waits on the right time to act, for the right principles and in the right way.
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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.
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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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Jealousy is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.
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No man discovers anything big if he does not make himself small.
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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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It’s impossible to lose your footing when you’re on your knees.
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Hearing nuns’ confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.
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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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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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All badness is spoiled goodness. A bad apple is a good apple that became rotten. Because evil has no capital of its own, it is a parasite that feeds on goodness.
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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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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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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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Believe the incredible and you can do the impossible.
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There is no word more “dangerous” than liberalism, because to oppose it is the new “unforgivable sin.”
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Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
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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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Modern man has so long preached a doctrine of false tolerance; he has so long believed that right and wrong were only differences in a point of view, that now when evil works itself out in practice he is paralyzed to do anything against it.
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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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Souls generally do not fall away from Christ because of the Creed; they first have difficulty with the Commandments.
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We become like that which we love. If we love what is base, we become base; but if we love what is noble, we become noble.
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