Jealousy is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.
FULTON J. SHEENBefore the sin, Satan assures us that it is of no consequence; after the sin, he persuades us that it is unforgivable.
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God does not love us because we are valuable. We are valuable because God loves us.
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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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Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
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The greatest love story of all time is contained in a tiny white Host.
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Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.
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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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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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It is easy to find truth, though it is hard to face it, and harder still to follow it.
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All worry is atheism, because it is a want of trust in God.
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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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The difference between the love of a man and the love of a woman is that a man will always give reasons for loving, but a woman gives no reasons for loving.
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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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We are all born with the power of speech, but we need grammar. Conscience, too, needs Revelation.
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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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