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. SHEENSkeptics always want miracles such as stepping down from the Cross, but never the greater miracle of forgiveness.
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Broadmindedness, when it means indifference to right and wrong, eventually ends in a hatred of what is right.
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Believe the incredible and you can do the impossible.
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The greatest love story of all time is contained in a tiny white Host.
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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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Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.
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Criticism of others is thus an oblique form of self-commendation. We think we make the picture hang straight on our wall by telling our neighbors that all his pictures are crooked.
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All badness is spoiled goodness. A bad apple is a good apple that became rotten. Because evil has no capital of its own, it is a parasite that feeds on goodness.
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It’s impossible to lose your footing when you’re on your knees.
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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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Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man.
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All worry is atheism, because it is a want of trust in God.
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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?
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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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The Rosary is the best therapy for these distraught, unhappy, fearful, and frustrated souls, precisely because it involves the simultaneous use of three powers: the physical, the vocal, and the spiritual, and in that order.
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You must remember to love people and use things, rather than to love things and use people.
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