Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
FULTON J. SHEENPatience 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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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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There is no word more “dangerous” than liberalism, because to oppose it is the new “unforgivable sin.”
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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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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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I wonder maybe if our Lord does not suffer more from our indifference, than He did from the crucifixion.
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Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.
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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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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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Broadmindedness, when it means indifference to right and wrong, eventually ends in a hatred of what is right.
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Each of us comes into life with fists closed, set for aggressiveness and acquisition. But when we abandon life our hands are open; there is nothing on earth that we need, nothing the soul can take with it.
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Counsel involving right and wrong should never be sought from a man who does not say his prayers.
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No man discovers anything big if he does not make himself small.
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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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Believe the incredible and you can do the impossible.
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Many souls fail to find God because they want a religion which will remake society without remaking themselves.
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