Counsel involving right and wrong should never be sought from a man who does not say his prayers.
FULTON J. SHEENA 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.
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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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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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If you do not worship God, you worship something, and nine times out of ten it will be yourself.
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Patience is power. Patience is not an absence of action; rather it is “timing” it waits on the right time to act, for the right principles and in the right way.
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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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The Rosary is the best therapy for these distraught, unhappy, fearful, and frustrated souls, precisely because it involves the simultaneous use of three powers: the physical, the vocal, and the spiritual, and in that order.
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Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
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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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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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Civilization is always in danger when those who have never learned to obey are given the right to command.
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Modern man has so long preached a doctrine of false tolerance; he has so long believed that right and wrong were only differences in a point of view, that now when evil works itself out in practice he is paralyzed to do anything against 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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Our Lord did not ask us to give up the things of earth, but to exchange them for better things.
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Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.
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