Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
FULTON J. SHEENIt is not particularly difficult to find thousands who will spend two or three hours a day in exercising, but if you ask them to bend their knees to God in five minutes of prayer they protest that it is too long.
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Civilization is always in danger when those who have never learned to obey are given the right to command.
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It is not particularly difficult to find thousands who will spend two or three hours a day in exercising, but if you ask them to bend their knees to God in five minutes of prayer they protest that it is too long.
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The greatest love story of all time is contained in a tiny white Host.
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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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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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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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Ever since the days of Adam, man has been hiding from God and saying, ‘God is hard to find.
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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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Evil may have its hour, but God will have His day.
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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 is easy to find truth, though it is hard to face it, and harder still to follow it.
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God does not love us because we are valuable. We are valuable because God loves us.
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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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Liberty is no heirloom. It requires the daily bread of self-denial, the salt of law and, above all, the backbone of acknowledging responsibility for our deeds.
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