You must remember to love people and use things, rather than to love things and use people.
FULTON J. SHEENWe become like that which we love. If we love what is base, we become base; but if we love what is noble, we become noble.
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Hearing nuns’ confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.
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Charity is to be measured, not by what one has given away, but by what one has left.
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To tell a woman who is forty, “You look like sixteen,” is boloney. The blarney way of saying it is “Tell me how old you are, I should like to know at what age women are the most beautiful.
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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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Counsel involving right and wrong should never be sought from a man who does not say his prayers.
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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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Ever since the days of Adam, man has been hiding from God and saying, ‘God is hard to find.
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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 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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Satan always tempts the pure – the others are already his.
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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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God does not love us because we are valuable. We are valuable because God loves us.
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A smile across the aisle of a bus in the morning could save a suicide later in the day.
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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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Skeptics always want miracles such as stepping down from the Cross, but never the greater miracle of forgiveness.
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