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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?

Fulton J. Sheen

Each of us comes into life with fists closed, set for aggressiveness and acquisition. But when we abandon life our hands are open; there is nothing on earth that we need, nothing the soul can take with it.
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Abandonment Aggressive Earth Life Soul
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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Born Himself Son Woman
Civilization is always in danger when those who have never learned to obey are given the right to command.
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Civilization Command Dangerous Learning Obedience Right
Evil may have its hour, but God will have His day.
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Day Evil God Negative Positive Time
There is no other subject on which the average mind is so much confused as the subject of tolerance and intolerance… Tolerance applies only to persons, but never to principles. Intolerance applies only to principles, but never to persons.
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Average Mindset Person Principle Subject Tolerance
It is easy to find truth, though it is hard to face it, and harder still to follow it.
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Easy Face Finding Follow Hard Truth
You must remember to love people and use things, rather than to love things and use people.
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Love People Remember Yourself
I feel it is time that I also pay tribute to my four writers, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
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Feeling Myself Pay Time Writing
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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Attention Blessing Fact Himself Life Pay Thinking
It’s impossible to lose your footing when you’re on your knees.
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Impossible Lose Religious Yourself
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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Absence Action Patience Power Principle Right Way
No man discovers anything big if he does not make himself small.
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Discover Himself Man Small Wisdom
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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Account Action Life Register
It is not particularly difficult to find thousands who will spend two or three hours a day in exercising, but if you ask them to bend their knees to God in five minutes of prayer they protest that it is too long.
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Difficult Exercise God Prayer Religious Time Willing
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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Act Happiness Himself Humility Kindness Lose Man Moments Philosophy Time True
Our Lord did not ask us to give up the things of earth, but to exchange them for better things.
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Better Earth Give Up God Religious

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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