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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.

Fulton J. Sheen

Every moment comes to you pregnant with divine purpose. Once it leaves your hands and your power to do with it as you please, it plunges into eternity, to remain forever what you made it.
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Divine Forever Hands Moments Power Pregnant Yourself
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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Abandonment Aggressive Earth Life Soul
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
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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Affection Divine God Happiness Human Love
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
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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Greatness Love Noble Transformation
Most of us do not like to look inside ourselves for the same reason we don’t like to open a letter that has bad news.
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Bad Letter Open Ourselves Reason
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
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
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
The old liberal rebelled against taxation without responsibility, the new liberal wants the taxation as a handout without responsibility.
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Liberty Responsibility Tax
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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Acknowledgement Action Law Liberty Ourselves Responsibility
It’s impossible to lose your footing when you’re on your knees.
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Impossible Lose Religious Yourself
There are two ways of waking up in the morning. One is to say, ‘Good morning, God,’ and the other is to say, ‘Good God, morning’!
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Morning Perspective Religious Wake Up Way
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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Close Example Judgement Live Spirit
Many souls fail to find God because they want a religion which will remake society without remaking themselves.
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Failure God Religion Remake Soul
You must remember to love people and use things, rather than to love things and use people.
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Love People Remember Yourself
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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Divine Generosity Hands Love Scars Service Wound
Hearing nuns’ confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.
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Confession Death Food Funny
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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Anxiety Assumption Creation Destiny Fake Freedom People
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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Children Consciousness Forever Heaven Parents
Evil may have its hour, but God will have His day.
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Day Evil God Negative Positive Time
All worry is atheism, because it is a want of trust in God.
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Atheist God Trust Worry
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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Burden Compassionate Light Sorrow Yourself
No man discovers anything big if he does not make himself small.
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Discover Himself Man Small Wisdom
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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Attention Blessing Fact Himself Life Pay Thinking

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