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?
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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We are all born with the power of speech, but we need grammar. Conscience, too, needs Revelation.
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The greatest love story of all time is contained in a tiny white Host.
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Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.
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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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To create the world cost God nothing; to save it from sin cost His Life Blood.
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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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All badness is spoiled goodness. A bad apple is a good apple that became rotten. Because evil has no capital of its own, it is a parasite that feeds on goodness.
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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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Ever since the days of Adam, man has been hiding from God and saying, ‘God is hard to find.
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Love was meant to be also a sign, a symbol, a messenger, a telltale of the Divine. Love is a messenger from God saying that every human affection and every ecstasy of love are sparks from the great flame of love that is God.
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All worry is atheism, because it is a want of trust in God.
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Criticism of others is thus an oblique form of self-commendation. We think we make the picture hang straight on our wall by telling our neighbors that all his pictures are crooked.
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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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Souls generally do not fall away from Christ because of the Creed; they first have difficulty with the Commandments.
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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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