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.
FULTON J. SHEENThere is no word more “dangerous” than liberalism, because to oppose it is the new “unforgivable sin.”
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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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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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Most commit the same mistake with God that they do with their friends: they do all the talking.
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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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There are two ways of waking up in the morning. One is to say, ‘Good morning, God,’ and the other is to say, ‘Good God, morning’!
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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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Freedom that ignores the transcendent difference between good and evil ends in the denial of freedom itself.
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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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You must remember to love people and use things, rather than to love things and use people.
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Believe the incredible and you can do the impossible.
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If you do not live what you believe, you will end up believing what you live.
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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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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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Every 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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