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.
FULTON J. SHEENCriticism 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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Believe the incredible and you can do the impossible.
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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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Humility is dependence on God as pride is independence of Him. The humble soul is always the thankful soul.
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Hearing nuns’ confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.
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Ever since the days of Adam, man has been hiding from God and saying, ‘God is hard to find.
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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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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 Catholic may sin and sin as badly as anyone else, but no genuine Catholic ever denies he is a sinner. A Catholic wants his sins forgiven – not excused or sublimated.
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All worry is atheism, because it is a want of trust in God.
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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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Skeptics always want miracles such as stepping down from the Cross, but never the greater miracle of forgiveness.
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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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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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Our Lord did not ask us to give up the things of earth, but to exchange them for better things.
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There are not one hundred people in the United States who hate The Catholic Church, but there are millions who hate what they wrongly perceive the Catholic Church to be.
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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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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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If you do not live out your faith enthusiastically, maybe you don’t have any faith.
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The greatest love story of all time is contained in a tiny white Host.
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Counsel involving right and wrong should never be sought from a man who does not say his prayers.
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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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I wonder maybe if our Lord does not suffer more from our indifference, than He did from the crucifixion.
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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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To create the world cost God nothing; to save it from sin cost His Life Blood.
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Broadmindedness, when it means indifference to right and wrong, eventually ends in a hatred of what is right.
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