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.
FULTON J. SHEENPrayer 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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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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Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.
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Satan always tempts the pure – the others are already his.
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There is no word more “dangerous” than liberalism, because to oppose it is the new “unforgivable sin.”
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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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It’s impossible to lose your footing when you’re on your knees.
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No man discovers anything big if he does not make himself small.
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There are two ways of waking up in the morning. One is to say, ‘Good morning, God,’ and the other is to say, ‘Good God, morning’!
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Freedom that ignores the transcendent difference between good and evil ends in the denial of freedom itself.
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Sex has become one of the most discussed subjects of modern times. The Victorians pretended it did not exist; the moderns pretend nothing else exists.
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Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.
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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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It is easy to find truth, though it is hard to face it, and harder still to follow it.
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You must remember to love people and use things, rather than to love things and use people.
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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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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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Evil may have its hour, but God will have His day.
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Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
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Each of us comes into life with fists closed, set for aggressiveness and acquisition. But when we abandon life our hands are open; there is nothing on earth that we need, nothing the soul can take with it.
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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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Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man.
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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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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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Humility is dependence on God as pride is independence of Him. The humble soul is always the thankful soul.
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Let those who think that the Church pays too much attention to Mary give heed to the fact that Our Blessed Lord Himself gave ten times as much of His life to her as He gave to His Apostles.
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