God does not love us because we are valuable. We are valuable because God loves us.
FULTON J. SHEENCounsel involving right and wrong should never be sought from a man who does not say his prayers.
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Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
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Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.
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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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A smile across the aisle of a bus in the morning could save a suicide later in the day.
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Moral principles do not depend on a majority vote. Wrong is wrong, even if everybody is wrong. Right is right, even if nobody is right.
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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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It is easy to find truth, though it is hard to face it, and harder still to follow it.
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Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man.
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If we wish to have the light, we must keep the sun; if we wish to keep our forests we must keep our trees; if we wish to keep our perfumes, we must keep our flowers- and if we wish to keep our rights, then we must keep our God.
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It’s impossible to lose your footing when you’re on your knees.
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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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The greatest love story of all time is contained in a tiny white Host.
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Hearing nuns’ confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.
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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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