A woman gets angry when a man denies his faults, because she knew them all along. His lying mocks her affection; it is the deceit that angers her more than the faults.
FULTON J. SHEENSometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.
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When a child is given to his parents, a crown is made for that child in Heaven, and woe to the parents who raise a child without consciousness of that eternal crown!
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If you do not live out your faith enthusiastically, maybe you don’t have any faith.
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To create the world cost God nothing; to save it from sin cost His Life Blood.
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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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Many souls fail to find God because they want a religion which will remake society without remaking themselves.
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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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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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To tell a woman who is forty, “You look like sixteen,” is boloney. The blarney way of saying it is “Tell me how old you are, I should like to know at what age women are the most beautiful.
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You must remember to love people and use things, rather than to love things and use people.
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No man discovers anything big if he does not make himself small.
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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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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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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 not one hundred people in the United States who hate The Catholic Church, but there are millions who hate what they wrongly perceive the Catholic Church to be.
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Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.
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