A Catholic may sin and sin as badly as anyone else, but no genuine Catholic ever denies he is a sinner. A Catholic wants his sins forgiven – not excused or sublimated.
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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Freedom that ignores the transcendent difference between good and evil ends in the denial of freedom itself.
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Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
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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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No man discovers anything big if he does not make himself small.
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It’s impossible to lose your footing when you’re on your knees.
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How could science be an enemy of religion when God commanded man to be a scientist the day He told him to rule the earth and subject it?
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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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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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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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All worry is atheism, because it is a want of trust in God.
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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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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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Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.
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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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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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