God does not love us because we are valuable. We are valuable because God loves us.
FULTON J. SHEENHumility is dependence on God as pride is independence of Him. The humble soul is always the thankful soul.
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Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man.
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Believe the incredible and you can do the impossible.
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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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Jealousy is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.
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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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When a child is given to his parents, a crown is made for that child in Heaven, and woe to the parents who raise a child without consciousness of that eternal crown!
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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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The Rosary is the best therapy for these distraught, unhappy, fearful, and frustrated souls, precisely because it involves the simultaneous use of three powers: the physical, the vocal, and the spiritual, and in that order.
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Hearing nuns’ confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.
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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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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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Evil may have its hour, but God will have His day.
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If you do not worship God, you worship something, and nine times out of ten it will be yourself.
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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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Civilization is always in danger when those who have never learned to obey are given the right to command.
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