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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.

Fulton J. Sheen

There are angels near you to guide you and protect you, if you would but invoke them. It is not later than we think, it is a bigger world than we think.
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Angel Big Guide Protection Thinking World Yourself
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
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
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
I feel it is time that I also pay tribute to my four writers, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
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Feeling Myself Pay Time Writing
Counsel involving right and wrong should never be sought from a man who does not say his prayers.
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Himself Man Prayer Right Wrong
Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
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End Generosity Love Philosophy Recover
To create the world cost God nothing; to save it from sin cost His Life Blood.
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Blood Cost Creation God Himself Sin World
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
Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.
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Break God Goodness Heart Time Way
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
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
All worry is atheism, because it is a want of trust in God.
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Atheist God Trust Worry
God does not love us because we are valuable. We are valuable because God loves us.
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God Love Ourselves Religious Value
Souls generally do not fall away from Christ because of the Creed; they first have difficulty with the Commandments.
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Command Difficult God Religious Scripture Soul
Believe the incredible and you can do the impossible.
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Believe God Impossible Inspirational Yourself
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
It is not particularly difficult to find thousands who will spend two or three hours a day in exercising, but if you ask them to bend their knees to God in five minutes of prayer they protest that it is too long.
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Difficult Exercise God Prayer Religious Time Willing
Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man.
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Communism Human Logic Man
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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Badness Capital Evil Goodness Spoil
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
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
Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.
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Account Action Life Register
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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Best Therapy
Civilization is always in danger when those who have never learned to obey are given the right to command.
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Civilization Command Dangerous Learning Obedience Right
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
Skeptics always want miracles such as stepping down from the Cross, but never the greater miracle of forgiveness.
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Forgiveness Greatness Miracle

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