Hearing nuns’ confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.
FULTON J. SHEENI wonder maybe if our Lord does not suffer more from our indifference, than He did from the crucifixion.
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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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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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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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Love was meant to be also a sign, a symbol, a messenger, a telltale of the Divine. Love is a messenger from God saying that every human affection and every ecstasy of love are sparks from the great flame of love that is 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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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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It is easy to find truth, though it is hard to face it, and harder still to follow it.
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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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Many souls fail to find God because they want a religion which will remake society without remaking themselves.
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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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Broadmindedness, when it means indifference to right and wrong, eventually ends in a hatred of what is right.
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If you do not live out your faith enthusiastically, maybe you don’t have any faith.
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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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Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.
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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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