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.
FULTON J. SHEENThe difference between the love of a man and the love of a woman is that a man will always give reasons for loving, but a woman gives no reasons for loving.
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The greatest love story of all time is contained in a tiny white Host.
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The old liberal rebelled against taxation without responsibility, the new liberal wants the taxation as a handout without responsibility.
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God does not love us because we are valuable. We are valuable because God loves us.
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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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It’s impossible to lose your footing when you’re on your knees.
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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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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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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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Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man.
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I feel it is time that I also pay tribute to my four writers, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
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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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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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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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Sex has become one of the most discussed subjects of modern times. The Victorians pretended it did not exist; the moderns pretend nothing else exists.
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Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
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