Humility is dependence on God as pride is independence of Him. The humble soul is always the thankful soul.
FULTON J. SHEENLove is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
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There is no word more “dangerous” than liberalism, because to oppose it is the new “unforgivable sin.”
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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.
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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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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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Hearing nuns’ confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.
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Most commit the same mistake with God that they do with their friends: they do all the talking.
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Help someone in distress and you lighten your own burden; the very joy of alleviating the sorrow of another is the lessening of one’s own.
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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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Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.
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Moral principles do not depend on a majority vote. Wrong is wrong, even if everybody is wrong. Right is right, even if nobody is right.
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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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God does not love us because we are valuable. We are valuable because God loves us.
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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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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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You must remember to love people and use things, rather than to love things and use people.
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