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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.

Fulton J. Sheen

Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
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End Generosity Love Philosophy Recover
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
Moral principles do not depend on a majority vote. Wrong is wrong, even if everybody is wrong. Right is right, even if nobody is right.
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Dependent Moral Principle Right Vote Wrong
Humility is dependence on God as pride is independence of Him. The humble soul is always the thankful soul.
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Dependent Himself Humble Humility Soul Thankful
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
Broadmindedness, when it means indifference to right and wrong, eventually ends in a hatred of what is right.
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Difference End Hate Right Wrong
Jealousy is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.
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Average Genius Jealous Pay
Most commit the same mistake with God that they do with their friends: they do all the talking.
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Commitment Friendship God Mistake Talk
Modern man has so long preached a doctrine of false tolerance; he has so long believed that right and wrong were only differences in a point of view, that now when evil works itself out in practice he is paralyzed to do anything against it.
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Believe Difference Fake Man Modern Tolerance View
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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Criticism Ourselves Photograph Thinking Wall
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
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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Act Happiness Himself Humility Kindness Lose Man Moments Philosophy Time True
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
No man discovers anything big if he does not make himself small.
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Discover Himself Man Small Wisdom
We are all born with the power of speech, but we need grammar. Conscience, too, needs Revelation.
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Born Conscience Grammar Need Power
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

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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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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