You must remember to love people and use things, rather than to love things and use people.
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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Prayer begins by talking to God, but it ends by listening to Him. In the face of Absolute Truth, silence is the soul’s language.
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The greatest love story of all time is contained in a tiny white Host.
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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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Judge the Catholic Church not by those who barely live by its spirit, but by the example of those who live closest to it.
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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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It’s impossible to lose your footing when you’re on your knees.
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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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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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Believe the incredible and you can do the impossible.
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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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To create the world cost God nothing; to save it from sin cost His Life Blood.
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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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Our Lord did not ask us to give up the things of earth, but to exchange them for better things.
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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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Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man.
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