God does not love us because we are valuable. We are valuable because God loves us.
FULTON J. SHEENBelieve the incredible and you can do the impossible.
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A Catholic may sin and sin as badly as anyone else, but no genuine Catholic ever denies he is a sinner. A Catholic wants his sins forgiven – not excused or sublimated.
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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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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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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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Humility is dependence on God as pride is independence of Him. The humble soul is always the thankful soul.
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Ever since the days of Adam, man has been hiding from God and saying, ‘God is hard to find.
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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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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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Our Lord did not ask us to give up the things of earth, but to exchange them for better things.
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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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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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Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
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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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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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Patience is power. Patience is not an absence of action; rather it is “timing” it waits on the right time to act, for the right principles and in the right way.
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