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.
FULTON J. SHEENPrayer 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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If you do not worship God, you worship something, and nine times out of ten it will be yourself.
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Hearing nuns’ confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.
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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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Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.
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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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It’s impossible to lose your footing when you’re on your knees.
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Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
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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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We are all born with the power of speech, but we need grammar. Conscience, too, needs Revelation.
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If you do not live out your faith enthusiastically, maybe you don’t have any faith.
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No man discovers anything big if he does not make himself small.
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Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man.
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Before the sin, Satan assures us that it is of no consequence; after the sin, he persuades us that it is unforgivable.
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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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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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