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.
FULTON J. SHEENWhen 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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We are all born with the power of speech, but we need grammar. Conscience, too, needs Revelation.
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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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Charity is to be measured, not by what one has given away, but by what one has left.
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There are two ways of waking up in the morning. One is to say, ‘Good morning, God,’ and the other is to say, ‘Good God, morning’!
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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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The greatest love story of all time is contained in a tiny white Host.
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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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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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Ever since the days of Adam, man has been hiding from God and saying, ‘God is hard to find.
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It’s impossible to lose your footing when you’re on your knees.
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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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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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There is no word more “dangerous” than liberalism, because to oppose it is the new “unforgivable sin.”
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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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Most commit the same mistake with God that they do with their friends: they do all the talking.
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