Humility is dependence on God as pride is independence of Him. The humble soul is always the thankful soul.
FULTON J. SHEENGod does not love us because we are valuable. We are valuable because God loves us.
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Evil may have its hour, but God will have His day.
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Moral principles do not depend on a majority vote. Wrong is wrong, even if everybody is wrong. Right is right, even if nobody is right.
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Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.
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I feel it is time that I also pay tribute to my four writers, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
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Satan always tempts the pure – the others are already his.
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The greatest love story of all time is contained in a tiny white Host.
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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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Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.
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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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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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A smile across the aisle of a bus in the morning could save a suicide later in the day.
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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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You must remember to love people and use things, rather than to love things and use people.
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If you do not live out your faith enthusiastically, maybe you don’t have any faith.
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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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