Broadmindedness, when it means indifference to right and wrong, eventually ends in a hatred of what is right.
FULTON J. SHEENA smile across the aisle of a bus in the morning could save a suicide later in the day.
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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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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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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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Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.
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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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Most commit the same mistake with God that they do with their friends: they do all the talking.
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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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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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A smile across the aisle of a bus in the morning could save a suicide later in the day.
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Every moment comes to you pregnant with divine purpose. Once it leaves your hands and your power to do with it as you please, it plunges into eternity, to remain forever what you made it.
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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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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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All worry is atheism, because it is a want of trust in God.
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Charity is to be measured, not by what one has given away, but by what one has left.
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We are all born with the power of speech, but we need grammar. Conscience, too, needs Revelation.
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