Jealousy is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.
FULTON J. SHEENIf you do not worship God, you worship something, and nine times out of ten it will be yourself.
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Believe the incredible and you can do the impossible.
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Our Lord did not ask us to give up the things of earth, but to exchange them for better things.
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The greatest love story of all time is contained in a tiny white Host.
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Broadmindedness, when it means indifference to right and wrong, eventually ends in a hatred of what is right.
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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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I wonder maybe if our Lord does not suffer more from our indifference, than He did from the crucifixion.
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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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It’s impossible to lose your footing when you’re on your knees.
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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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We are all born with the power of speech, but we need grammar. Conscience, too, needs Revelation.
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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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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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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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To create the world cost God nothing; to save it from sin cost His Life Blood.
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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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