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.
FULTON J. SHEENLove is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
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The old liberal rebelled against taxation without responsibility, the new liberal wants the taxation as a handout without responsibility.
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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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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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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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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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Humility is dependence on God as pride is independence of Him. The humble soul is always the thankful soul.
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Hearing nuns’ confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.
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Jealousy is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.
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Freedom does not mean that right to do whatever we please, but rather to do as we ought. The right to do whatever we please reduces freedom to a physical power and forgets that freedom is a moral power.
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Believe the incredible and you can do the impossible.
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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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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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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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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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To create the world cost God nothing; to save it from sin cost His Life Blood.
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