Jealousy is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.
FULTON J. SHEENJudge 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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To create the world cost God nothing; to save it from sin cost His Life Blood.
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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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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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All worry is atheism, because it is a want of trust in God.
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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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Hearing nuns’ confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.
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It was to a virgin woman that the birth of the Son of God was announced. It was to a fallen woman that his resurrection was announced.
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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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Many souls fail to find God because they want a religion which will remake society without remaking themselves.
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God does not love us because we are valuable. We are valuable because God loves us.
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Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
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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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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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The old liberal rebelled against taxation without responsibility, the new liberal wants the taxation as a handout without responsibility.
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