Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.
FULTON J. SHEENA smile across the aisle of a bus in the morning could save a suicide later in the day.
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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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If you do not worship God, you worship something, and nine times out of ten it will be yourself.
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The Rosary is the best therapy for these distraught, unhappy, fearful, and frustrated souls, precisely because it involves the simultaneous use of three powers: the physical, the vocal, and the spiritual, and in that order.
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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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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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Hearing nuns’ confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.
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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 you do not live what you believe, you will end up believing what you live.
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Satan always tempts the pure – the others are already his.
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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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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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Souls generally do not fall away from Christ because of the Creed; they first have difficulty with the Commandments.
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Most of us do not like to look inside ourselves for the same reason we don’t like to open a letter that has bad news.
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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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It’s impossible to lose your footing when you’re on your knees.
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