Hearing nuns’ confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.
FULTON J. SHEENSatan always tempts the pure – the others are already his.
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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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Counsel involving right and wrong should never be sought from a man who does not say his prayers.
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A Catholic may sin and sin as badly as anyone else, but no genuine Catholic ever denies he is a sinner. A Catholic wants his sins forgiven – not excused or sublimated.
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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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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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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 every human affection and every ecstasy of love are sparks from the great flame of love that is God.
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Evil may have its hour, but God will have His day.
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There is no word more “dangerous” than liberalism, because to oppose it is the new “unforgivable sin.”
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Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.
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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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When a child is given to his parents, a crown is made for that child in Heaven, and woe to the parents who raise a child without consciousness of that eternal crown!
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A woman gets angry when a man denies his faults, because she knew them all along. His lying mocks her affection; it is the deceit that angers her more than the faults.
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Nothing is more destined to create deep-seated anxieties in people than the false assumption that life should be free from anxieties.
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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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