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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!

Fulton J. Sheen

Jealousy is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.
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Average Genius Jealous Pay
Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
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End Generosity Love Philosophy Recover
It was to a virgin woman that the birth of the Son of God was announced. It was to a fallen woman that his resurrection was announced.
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Born Himself Son Woman
We are all born with the power of speech, but we need grammar. Conscience, too, needs Revelation.
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Born Conscience Grammar Need Power
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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Age Beautiful Deep Myself Woman
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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Affection Divine God Happiness Human Love
Freedom does not mean that right to do whatever we please, but rather to do as we ought. The right to do whatever we please reduces freedom to a physical power and forgets that freedom is a moral power.
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Freedom Justice Moral Physical Power Reduce Right
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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Angel Big Guide Protection Thinking World Yourself
We become like that which we love. If we love what is base, we become base; but if we love what is noble, we become noble.
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Greatness Love Noble Transformation
I wonder maybe if our Lord does not suffer more from our indifference, than He did from the crucifixion.
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God Ourselves Suffering Wonder
Let those who think that the Church pays too much attention to Mary give heed to the fact that Our Blessed Lord Himself gave ten times as much of His life to her as He gave to His Apostles.
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Attention Blessing Fact Himself Life Pay Thinking
If you do not worship God, you worship something, and nine times out of ten it will be yourself.
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God Time Worship Yourself
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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Burden Compassionate Light Sorrow Yourself
If you do not live out your faith enthusiastically, maybe you don’t have any faith.
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Dedication Enthusiasm Faith Live Religion Yourself
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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Consequence Evil Forgiveness Himself Result Sin
Ever since the days of Adam, man has been hiding from God and saying, ‘God is hard to find.
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Ancient Day Finding God Hard Time

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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