Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.
FULTON J. SHEENOur 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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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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Satan always tempts the pure – the others are already his.
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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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It is easy to find truth, though it is hard to face it, and harder still to follow it.
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The greatest love story of all time is contained in a tiny white Host.
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Our Lord did not ask us to give up the things of earth, but to exchange them for better things.
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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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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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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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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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Ever since the days of Adam, man has been hiding from God and saying, ‘God is hard to find.
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No man discovers anything big if he does not make himself small.
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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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Hearing nuns’ confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.
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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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