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.
FULTON J. SHEENShow 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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Nothing is more destined to create deep-seated anxieties in people than the false assumption that life should be free from anxieties.
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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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Moral principles do not depend on a majority vote. Wrong is wrong, even if everybody is wrong. Right is right, even if nobody is right.
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Evil may have its hour, but God will have His day.
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I wonder maybe if our Lord does not suffer more from our indifference, than He did from the crucifixion.
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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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Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man.
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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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God does not love us because we are valuable. We are valuable because God loves us.
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Hearing nuns’ confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.
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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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Judge the Catholic Church not by those who barely live by its spirit, but by the example of those who live closest to it.
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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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Skeptics always want miracles such as stepping down from the Cross, but never the greater miracle of forgiveness.
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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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