Nothing is more destined to create deep-seated anxieties in people than the false assumption that life should be free from anxieties.
FULTON J. SHEENJealousy is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.
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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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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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Freedom that ignores the transcendent difference between good and evil ends in the denial of freedom itself.
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Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man.
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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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Jealousy is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.
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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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A smile across the aisle of a bus in the morning could save a suicide later in the day.
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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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If you do not live what you believe, you will end up believing what you live.
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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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All worry is atheism, because it is a want of trust in God.
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Souls generally do not fall away from Christ because of the Creed; they first have difficulty with the Commandments.
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The old liberal rebelled against taxation without responsibility, the new liberal wants the taxation as a handout without responsibility.
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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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