Charity is to be measured, not by what one has given away, but by what one has left.
FULTON J. SHEENThe 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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Skeptics always want miracles such as stepping down from the Cross, but never the greater miracle of forgiveness.
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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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Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.
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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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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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It is easy to find truth, though it is hard to face it, and harder still to follow it.
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Modern man has so long preached a doctrine of false tolerance; he has so long believed that right and wrong were only differences in a point of view, that now when evil works itself out in practice he is paralyzed to do anything against it.
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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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The greatest love story of all time is contained in a tiny white Host.
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Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man.
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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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Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.
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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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Let those who think that the Church pays too much attention to Mary give heed to the fact that Our Blessed Lord Himself gave ten times as much of His life to her as He gave to His Apostles.
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