The greatest love story of all time is contained in a tiny white Host.
FULTON J. SHEENMost commit the same mistake with God that they do with their friends: they do all the talking.
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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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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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There are not one hundred people in the United States who hate The Catholic Church, but there are millions who hate what they wrongly perceive the Catholic Church to be.
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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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No man discovers anything big if he does not make himself small.
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Love was meant to be also a sign, a symbol, a messenger, a telltale of the Divine. Love is a messenger from God saying that every human affection and every ecstasy of love are sparks from the great flame of love that is God.
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It’s impossible to lose your footing when you’re on your knees.
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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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A smile across the aisle of a bus in the morning could save a suicide later in the day.
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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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If you do not worship God, you worship something, and nine times out of ten it will be yourself.
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If you do not live what you believe, you will end up believing what you live.
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We 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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Humility is dependence on God as pride is independence of Him. The humble soul is always the thankful soul.
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Liberty is no heirloom. It requires the daily bread of self-denial, the salt of law and, above all, the backbone of acknowledging responsibility for our deeds.
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