If you do not worship God, you worship something, and nine times out of ten it will be yourself.
FULTON J. SHEENNothing 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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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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A smile across the aisle of a bus in the morning could save a suicide later in the day.
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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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Jealousy is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.
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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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Most of us do not like to look inside ourselves for the same reason we don’t like to open a letter that has bad news.
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All worry is atheism, because it is a want of trust in God.
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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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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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Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.
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Counsel involving right and wrong should never be sought from a man who does not say his prayers.
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Ever since the days of Adam, man has been hiding from God and saying, ‘God is hard to find.
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There is no other subject on which the average mind is so much confused as the subject of tolerance and intolerance… Tolerance applies only to persons, but never to principles. Intolerance applies only to principles, but never to persons.
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Help someone in distress and you lighten your own burden; the very joy of alleviating the sorrow of another is the lessening of one’s own.
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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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