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.
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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Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
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Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.
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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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If we wish to have the light, we must keep the sun; if we wish to keep our forests we must keep our trees; if we wish to keep our perfumes, we must keep our flowers- and if we wish to keep our rights, then we must keep our God.
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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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Believe the incredible and you can do the impossible.
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The 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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Civilization is always in danger when those who have never learned to obey are given the right to command.
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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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I feel it is time that I also pay tribute to my four writers, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
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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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Charity is to be measured, not by what one has given away, but by what one has left.
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No man discovers anything big if he does not make himself small.
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Every moment comes to you pregnant with divine purpose. Once it leaves your hands and your power to do with it as you please, it plunges into eternity, to remain forever what you made it.
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If you do not live out your faith enthusiastically, maybe you don’t have any faith.
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