The difference between the love of a man and the love of a woman is that a man will always give reasons for loving, but a woman gives no reasons for loving.
FULTON J. SHEENLove 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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The greatest love story of all time is contained in a tiny white Host.
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Satan always tempts the pure – the others are already his.
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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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Broadmindedness, when it means indifference to right and wrong, eventually ends in a hatred of what is right.
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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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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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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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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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Our Lord did not ask us to give up the things of earth, but to exchange them for better things.
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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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Freedom that ignores the transcendent difference between good and evil ends in the denial of freedom itself.
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I feel it is time that I also pay tribute to my four writers, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
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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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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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