Jealousy is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.
FULTON J. SHEENAll 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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Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.
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It’s impossible to lose your footing when you’re on your knees.
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It was to a virgin woman that the birth of the Son of God was announced. It was to a fallen woman that his resurrection was announced.
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God does not love us because we are valuable. We are valuable because God loves us.
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Charity is to be measured, not by what one has given away, but by what one has left.
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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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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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To create the world cost God nothing; to save it from sin cost His Life Blood.
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Evil may have its hour, but God will have His day.
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If you do not live what you believe, you will end up believing what you live.
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Believe the incredible and you can do the impossible.
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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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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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Souls generally do not fall away from Christ because of the Creed; they first have difficulty with the Commandments.
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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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