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Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.

Fulton J. Sheen

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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Criticism Ourselves Photograph Thinking Wall
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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Affection Divine God Happiness Human Love
Souls generally do not fall away from Christ because of the Creed; they first have difficulty with the Commandments.
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Command Difficult God Religious Scripture Soul
Most of us do not like to look inside ourselves for the same reason we don’t like to open a letter that has bad news.
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Bad Letter Open Ourselves Reason
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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Account Action Life Register
If you do not worship God, you worship something, and nine times out of ten it will be yourself.
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God Time Worship Yourself
Most commit the same mistake with God that they do with their friends: they do all the talking.
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Commitment Friendship God Mistake Talk
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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Flower Forest God Light Material Ourselves Production Right Sun Tree
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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Close Example Judgement Live Spirit
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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Badness Capital Evil Goodness Spoil
Evil may have its hour, but God will have His day.
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Day Evil God Negative Positive Time
If you do not live out your faith enthusiastically, maybe you don’t have any faith.
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Dedication Enthusiasm Faith Live Religion Yourself
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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Divine Generosity Hands Love Scars Service Wound
How could science be an enemy of religion when God commanded man to be a scientist the day He told him to rule the earth and subject it?
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Command Enemy God Religion Science Subject
To create the world cost God nothing; to save it from sin cost His Life Blood.
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Blood Cost Creation God Himself Sin World
Patience is power. Patience is not an absence of action; rather it is “timing” it waits on the right time to act, for the right principles and in the right way.
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Absence Action Patience Power Principle Right Way

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