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. SHEENThe greatest love story of all time is contained in a tiny white Host.
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There are not one hundred people in the United States who hate The Catholic Church, but there are millions who hate what they wrongly perceive the Catholic Church to be.
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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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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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It’s impossible to lose your footing when you’re on your knees.
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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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If we wish to have the light, we must keep the sun; if we wish to keep our forests we must keep our trees; if we wish to keep our perfumes, we must keep our flowers- and if we wish to keep our rights, then we must keep our God.
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Hearing nuns’ confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.
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God does not love us because we are valuable. We are valuable because God loves us.
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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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A smile across the aisle of a bus in the morning could save a suicide later in the day.
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Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man.
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Believe the incredible and you can do the impossible.
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Sex has become one of the most discussed subjects of modern times. The Victorians pretended it did not exist; the moderns pretend nothing else exists.
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Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.
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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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