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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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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Before the sin, Satan assures us that it is of no consequence; after the sin, he persuades us that it is unforgivable.
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If you do not live what you believe, you will end up believing what you live.
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I feel it is time that I also pay tribute to my four writers, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
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Ever since the days of Adam, man has been hiding from God and saying, ‘God is hard to find.
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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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When a child is given to his parents, a crown is made for that child in Heaven, and woe to the parents who raise a child without consciousness of that eternal crown!
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There are not one hundred people in the United States who hate The Catholic Church, but there are millions who hate what they wrongly perceive the Catholic Church to be.
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Satan always tempts the pure – the others are already his.
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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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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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Hearing nuns’ confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.
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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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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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A woman gets angry when a man denies his faults, because she knew them all along. His lying mocks her affection; it is the deceit that angers her more than the faults.
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