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A 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.

Fulton J. Sheen

Humility is dependence on God as pride is independence of Him. The humble soul is always the thankful soul.
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Dependent Himself Humble Humility Soul Thankful
Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.
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Goodness Life Yourself
Sex has become one of the most discussed subjects of modern times. The Victorians pretended it did not exist; the moderns pretend nothing else exists.
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Discussion Existence Modern Sex Subject Time
A smile across the aisle of a bus in the morning could save a suicide later in the day.
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Day Morning Smile Suicide
How could science be an enemy of religion when God commanded man to be a scientist the day He told him to rule the earth and subject it?
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Command Enemy God Religion Science Subject
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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Divine Generosity Hands Love Scars Service Wound
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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Beginning Face God Language Listening Prayer Silence Soul Talk Truth
Charity is to be measured, not by what one has given away, but by what one has left.
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Charity Measurement Oneself
Liberty is no heirloom. It requires the daily bread of self-denial, the salt of law and, above all, the backbone of acknowledging responsibility for our deeds.
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Acknowledgement Action Law Liberty Ourselves Responsibility
A Catholic may sin and sin as badly as anyone else, but no genuine Catholic ever denies he is a sinner. A Catholic wants his sins forgiven – not excused or sublimated.
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Bad Forgiveness Man Religious 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
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
Civilization is always in danger when those who have never learned to obey are given the right to command.
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Civilization Command Dangerous Learning Obedience Right
Moral principles do not depend on a majority vote. Wrong is wrong, even if everybody is wrong. Right is right, even if nobody is right.
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Dependent Moral Principle Right Vote Wrong
There is no other subject on which the average mind is so much confused as the subject of tolerance and intolerance… Tolerance applies only to persons, but never to principles. Intolerance applies only to principles, but never to persons.
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Average Mindset Person Principle Subject Tolerance
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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Morning Perspective Religious Wake Up Way
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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Absence Action Patience Power Principle Right Way
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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Flower Forest God Light Material Ourselves Production Right Sun Tree
The greatest love story of all time is contained in a tiny white Host.
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Greatness Love Story Time White
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
Satan always tempts the pure – the others are already his.
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Devil Himself Purity Temptation
Freedom that ignores the transcendent difference between good and evil ends in the denial of freedom itself.
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Evil Freedom Goodness Ignorance Transcendence
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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Difference Love Man Reason Relationship Woman
A 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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Affection Along Angry Mistake Woman
All worry is atheism, because it is a want of trust in God.
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Atheist God Trust Worry
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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Divine Forever Hands Moments Power Pregnant Yourself
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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Difficult Exercise God Prayer Religious Time Willing

A 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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