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Catholicism is not a lifeless set of rules and regulations. Catholicism is a lifestyle. Catholicism is a way of life designed by God to help you become all you can be.
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The notion of freedom proclaimed by the modern world is anti-discipline. But true freedom cannot be separated from discipline.
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Who you become is infinitely more important than what you do, or what you have.
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Never pass up an opportunity to speak a kind word of appreciation. There are six billion people on the planet, and 5.9 billion of them go to bed every night starving for one honest word of appreciation.
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God of hope, I look to you with an open heart and yearning spirit. During this Advent season, I will keep alert and awake, listening for your word and keeping to your precepts. My hope is in you.
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Discipline is the path to happiness.
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Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body and prayer is to the soul.
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Life is about love. It's about whom you love and whom you hurt. Life's about how you love yourself and how you hurt yourself. Life's about how you love and hurt the people close to you. Life is about how you love and hurt the people who just cross your path for a moment. Life is about love.
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The beauty of Catholicism is every human being's right.
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The way we see the world determines the way we live our lives
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Prayer is like a great love. When you start dating the silence can be awkward, but as you grow to know each other you can sit in silence for hours and just being with each other is a great comfort.
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We don't want to think about our weaknesses. We don't want to talk about them, and we certainly don't want anyone else to point them out. This is a classic sign of mediocrity, and this mediocrity has a firm grip on the Church and humanity at this moment in history.
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Our culture places a very high premium on self-expression, but is relatively disinterested in producing selves that are worth expressing.
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Anything and anyone that does not help you to become the best version of yourself is too small for you.
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We are not here to solve the problems the problems are here to solve us.
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Our essential purpose is to become the best version of ourselves.
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When you stand still, you reject the struggle, and you refuse to change and grow. Ultimately, you reject fulfillment, happiness, the dance for joy and everything else that is eternally good.
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Truth be told, our modern education systems crush the very spirit they claim to instill.
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Superficiality is the curse of the modern world.
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The challenge life presents to each of us is to become truly ourselves--not the self we have imagined or fantasized about, not the self that our friends want us to be, not the self our ego would have us be, but the self God has ordained us to be from before we were in our mother's womb.
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