Charity is to be measured, not by what one has given away, but by what one has left.
FULTON J. SHEENThe greatest love story of all time is contained in a tiny white Host.
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The greatest love story of all time is contained in a tiny white Host.
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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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Souls generally do not fall away from Christ because of the Creed; they first have difficulty with the Commandments.
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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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If you do not worship God, you worship something, and nine times out of ten it will be yourself.
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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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Counsel involving right and wrong should never be sought from a man who does not say his prayers.
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Never forget that there are only two philosophies to rule your life: the one of the cross, which starts with the fast and ends with the feast. The other of Satan, which starts with the feast and ends with the headache.
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Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.
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If you do not live out your faith enthusiastically, maybe you don’t have any faith.
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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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I wonder maybe if our Lord does not suffer more from our indifference, than He did from the crucifixion.
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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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A smile across the aisle of a bus in the morning could save a suicide later in the day.
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Freedom does not mean that right to do whatever we please, but rather to do as we ought. The right to do whatever we please reduces freedom to a physical power and forgets that freedom is a moral power.
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