Humility is dependence on God as pride is independence of Him. The humble soul is always the thankful soul.
FULTON J. SHEENWe 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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If you do not live out your faith enthusiastically, maybe you don’t have any faith.
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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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It’s impossible to lose your footing when you’re on your knees.
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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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Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
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Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man.
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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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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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There are angels near you to guide you and protect you, if you would but invoke them. It is not later than we think, it is a bigger world than we think.
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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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The old liberal rebelled against taxation without responsibility, the new liberal wants the taxation as a handout without responsibility.
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Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.
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Nothing is more destined to create deep-seated anxieties in people than the false assumption that life should be free from anxieties.
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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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Modern man has so long preached a doctrine of false tolerance; he has so long believed that right and wrong were only differences in a point of view, that now when evil works itself out in practice he is paralyzed to do anything against it.
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