There are angels near you to guide you and protect you, if you would but invoke them. It is not later than we think, it is a bigger world than we think.
FULTON J. SHEEN
To tell a woman who is forty, “You look like sixteen,” is boloney. The blarney way of saying it is “Tell me how old you are, I should like to know at what age women are the most beautiful.
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There are angels near you to guide you and protect you, if you would but invoke them. It is not later than we think, it is a bigger world than we think.
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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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Love was meant to be also a sign, a symbol, a messenger, a telltale of the Divine. Love is a messenger from God saying that every human affection and every ecstasy of love are sparks from the great flame of love that is God.
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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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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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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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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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Hearing nuns’ confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.
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It’s impossible to lose your footing when you’re on your knees.
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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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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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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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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 worry is atheism, because it is a want of trust in God.
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A woman gets angry when a man denies his faults, because she knew them all along. His lying mocks her affection; it is the deceit that angers her more than the faults.
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We are all born with the power of speech, but we need grammar. Conscience, too, needs Revelation.
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