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.
FULTON J. SHEENPatience 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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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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The Rosary is the best therapy for these distraught, unhappy, fearful, and frustrated souls, precisely because it involves the simultaneous use of three powers: the physical, the vocal, and the spiritual, and in that order.
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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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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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All worry is atheism, because it is a want of trust in God.
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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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Believe the incredible and you can do the impossible.
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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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Sex has become one of the most discussed subjects of modern times. The Victorians pretended it did not exist; the moderns pretend nothing else exists.
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If you do not live out your faith enthusiastically, maybe you don’t have any faith.
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Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.
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Hearing nuns’ confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.
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Civilization is always in danger when those who have never learned to obey are given the right to command.
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Satan always tempts the pure – the others are already his.
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The old liberal rebelled against taxation without responsibility, the new liberal wants the taxation as a handout without responsibility.
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