Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.
FULTON J. SHEENLife is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.
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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 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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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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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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No man discovers anything big if he does not make himself small.
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Our Lord did not ask us to give up the things of earth, but to exchange them for better things.
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We are all born with the power of speech, but we need grammar. Conscience, too, needs Revelation.
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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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If you do not worship God, you worship something, and nine times out of ten it will be yourself.
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All badness is spoiled goodness. A bad apple is a good apple that became rotten. Because evil has no capital of its own, it is a parasite that feeds on goodness.
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I wonder maybe if our Lord does not suffer more from our indifference, than He did from the crucifixion.
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Hearing nuns’ confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.
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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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Many souls fail to find God because they want a religion which will remake society without remaking themselves.
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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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