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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.

Fulton J. Sheen

Skeptics always want miracles such as stepping down from the Cross, but never the greater miracle of forgiveness.
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Forgiveness Greatness Miracle
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
No man discovers anything big if he does not make himself small.
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Discover Himself Man Small Wisdom
There is no other subject on which the average mind is so much confused as the subject of tolerance and intolerance… Tolerance applies only to persons, but never to principles. Intolerance applies only to principles, but never to persons.
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Average Mindset Person Principle Subject Tolerance
Never forget that there are only two philosophies to rule your life: the one of the cross, which starts with the fast and ends with the feast. The other of Satan, which starts with the feast and ends with the headache.
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Devil Forget Head Life Philosophy Rule Start
Jealousy is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.
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Average Genius Jealous Pay
Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.
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Goodness Life Yourself
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
Moral principles do not depend on a majority vote. Wrong is wrong, even if everybody is wrong. Right is right, even if nobody is right.
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Dependent Moral Principle Right Vote Wrong
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
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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Affection Along Angry Mistake Woman
Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man.
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Communism Human Logic Man
Satan always tempts the pure – the others are already his.
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Devil Himself Purity Temptation
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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Best Therapy
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
A smile across the aisle of a bus in the morning could save a suicide later in the day.
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Day Morning Smile Suicide

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 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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