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

Fulton J. Sheen

Many souls fail to find God because they want a religion which will remake society without remaking themselves.
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Failure God Religion Remake Soul
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
Ever since the days of Adam, man has been hiding from God and saying, ‘God is hard to find.
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Ancient Day Finding God Hard Time
It is not particularly difficult to find thousands who will spend two or three hours a day in exercising, but if you ask them to bend their knees to God in five minutes of prayer they protest that it is too long.
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Difficult Exercise God Prayer Religious Time Willing
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
Charity is to be measured, not by what one has given away, but by what one has left.
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Charity Measurement Oneself
The greatest love story of all time is contained in a tiny white Host.
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Greatness Love Story Time White
It’s impossible to lose your footing when you’re on your knees.
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Impossible Lose Religious Yourself
I feel it is time that I also pay tribute to my four writers, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
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Feeling Myself Pay Time Writing
Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
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End Generosity Love Philosophy Recover
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
We are all born with the power of speech, but we need grammar. Conscience, too, needs Revelation.
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Born Conscience Grammar Need Power
Our happiest times are those in which we forget ourselves, usually in being kind to someone else. That tiny moment of self-abdication is an act of true humility: the man who loses himself finds himself and finds his happiness.
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Act Happiness Himself Humility Kindness Lose Man Moments Philosophy Time True
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
You must remember to love people and use things, rather than to love things and use people.
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Love People Remember Yourself
All worry is atheism, because it is a want of trust in God.
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Atheist God Trust Worry

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