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.
FULTON J. SHEENSatan always tempts the pure – the others are already his.
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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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Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man.
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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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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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There is no word more “dangerous” than liberalism, because to oppose it is the new “unforgivable sin.”
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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.
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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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Civilization is always in danger when those who have never learned to obey are given the right to command.
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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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The difference between the love of a man and the love of a woman is that a man will always give reasons for loving, but a woman gives no reasons for loving.
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There are two ways of waking up in the morning. One is to say, ‘Good morning, God,’ and the other is to say, ‘Good God, morning’!
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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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Satan always tempts the pure – the others are already his.
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Before the sin, Satan assures us that it is of no consequence; after the sin, he persuades us that it is unforgivable.
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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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