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- Neither theological knowledge nor social action alone is enough to keep us in love with Christ unless both are proceeded by a personal encounter with…
- When I stand up to talk, people listen to me; they will follow what I have to say. Is it any power of mine? Of…
- All my sermons are prepared in the presence of the Blessed Sacrament. As recreation is most pleasant and profitable in the sun, so homiletic creativity…
- Live each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance toward the summit keeps the goal in mind, but many beautiful scenes are…
- Ever since the days of Adam, man has been hiding from God and saying, 'God is hard to find.
- Tolerance is an attitude of reasoned patience toward evil... a forbearance that restrains us from showing anger or inflicting punishment. Tolerance applies only to persons...…
- It is a long established principle of the Church never to completely drop from her public worship any ceremony, object or prayer which once occupied…
- Joy is the happiness of love - love aware of its own inner happiness. Pleasure comes from without, and joy comes from within, and it…
- Health, power, riches, possessions and honor can be snatched from you, but your will is irrevocably your own.
- Nothing is more destined to create deep-seated anxieties in people than the false assumption that life should be free from anxieties.
- When you are getting kicked from the rear it means you are in front.
- 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…
- Fasting detaches you from this world. Prayer reattaches you to the next world.
- I wonder maybe if our Lord does not suffer more from our indifference, than He did from the crucifixion.
- To create the world cost God nothing; to save it from sin cost His Life Blood.
- Joy is not the same as pleasure or happiness. A wicked and evil man may have pleasure, while any ordinary mortal is capable of being…
- If we had intellectual vigour enough to ascend from effects to causes, we would explain political, economical and social phenomena less by credit sheets, balance…
- 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…
- The principle of democracy is a recognition of the sovereign, inalienable rights of man as a gift from God, the Source of law.
- Once you have surrendered yourself, you make yourself receptive. In receiving from God, you are perfected and completed.
- Most of us love a non-self, or something extrinsic and apart from our inner life; but a mother's love during the time she is a…
- The mark of man is initiative, but the mark of woman is cooperation. Man talks about freedom; woman about sympathy, love, sacrifice. Man cooperates with…
- America, it is said, is suffering from intolerance — it is not. It is suffering from tolerance. Tolerance of right and wrong, truth and error,…
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