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.
FULTON J. SHEENLove is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
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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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Evil may have its hour, but God will have His day.
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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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God does not love us because we are valuable. We are valuable because God loves us.
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Liberty is no heirloom. It requires the daily bread of self-denial, the salt of law and, above all, the backbone of acknowledging responsibility for our deeds.
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Jealousy is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.
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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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Prayer begins by talking to God, but it ends by listening to Him. In the face of Absolute Truth, silence is the soul’s language.
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No man discovers anything big if he does not make himself small.
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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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Humility is dependence on God as pride is independence of Him. The humble soul is always the thankful soul.
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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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Believe the incredible and you can do the impossible.
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Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man.
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It is easy to find truth, though it is hard to face it, and harder still to follow it.
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