The difference between the love of a man and the love of a woman is that a man will always give reasons for loving, but a woman gives no reasons for loving.
FULTON J. SHEENEver since the days of Adam, man has been hiding from God and saying, ‘God is hard to find.
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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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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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Souls generally do not fall away from Christ because of the Creed; they first have difficulty with the Commandments.
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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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It is easy to find truth, though it is hard to face it, and harder still to follow it.
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Most commit the same mistake with God that they do with their friends: they do all the talking.
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Prayer begins by talking to God, but it ends by listening to Him. In the face of Absolute Truth, silence is the soul’s language.
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There are angels near you to guide you and protect you, if you would but invoke them. It is not later than we think, it is a bigger world than we think.
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The old liberal rebelled against taxation without responsibility, the new liberal wants the taxation as a handout without responsibility.
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If you do not worship God, you worship something, and nine times out of ten it will be yourself.
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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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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 smile across the aisle of a bus in the morning could save a suicide later in the day.
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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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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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The greatest love story of all time is contained in a tiny white Host.
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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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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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Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.
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Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.
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Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man.
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God does not love us because we are valuable. We are valuable because God loves us.
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Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
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Nothing is more destined to create deep-seated anxieties in people than the false assumption that life should be free from anxieties.
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Believe the incredible and you can do the impossible.
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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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