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.
FULTON J. SHEENThere 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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How could science be an enemy of religion when God commanded man to be a scientist the day He told him to rule the earth and subject it?
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A smile across the aisle of a bus in the morning could save a suicide later in the day.
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Believe the incredible and you can do the impossible.
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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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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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I wonder maybe if our Lord does not suffer more from our indifference, than He did from the crucifixion.
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Patience 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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All worry is atheism, because it is a want of trust in God.
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Hearing nuns’ confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.
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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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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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Jealousy is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.
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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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Skeptics always want miracles such as stepping down from the Cross, but never the greater miracle of forgiveness.
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Freedom does not mean that right to do whatever we please, but rather to do as we ought. The right to do whatever we please reduces freedom to a physical power and forgets that freedom is a moral power.
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